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This programme contains scenes some viewers may find upsetting. | :00:04. | :00:12. | |
Two British doctors on a mission to bring relief to Syria's children. | :00:12. | :00:19. | |
They don't have any baby ones. They have given me a great, big one. | :00:19. | :00:27. | |
Setting up clinics in Syria for families who don't have access to | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
medical care. This baby needs to be picked up. Are you the dad? | :00:31. | :00:41. | |
The civil war has triggered the greatest humanitarian disaster of | :00:41. | :00:50. | |
this century. One-third of the entire population has been forced | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
from their homes. Beyond the reach of most | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
international aid agencies. I dare any of them to come and just | :00:59. | :01:05. | |
spend one day in this camp to live. Just one day. Working in hospitals, | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
spend one day in this camp to live. they witness the dangers faced by | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
local staff. All the babies are coming down. A | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
very loud bang. It sounded quite close. You are waking up! They see | :01:17. | :01:23. | |
first-hand how their life-saving work is giving hope to the most | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
vulnerable. Those little fingers are so small! | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
And witness the truth about the war's child casualties after a | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
shocking attack on a school. I think there's been some kind of chemical | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
attack. There are dozens of people who have been rushed in, covered in | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
attack. There are dozens of people burns and some white powder, dust. | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
Their clothes are hanging off them. The whole world has failed our | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
nation. It is innocent civilians who are | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
paying the price. This is a camp in Syria, right on | :01:57. | :02:25. | |
the border with Turkey and the prospect of sanctuary. | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
The gates are closed and the people here cannot travel the final few | :02:31. | :02:38. | |
metres to safety. For two-and-a-half years, Syria has been at war and | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
millions are on the move. Half of them are children. Approximately | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
20,000 people here. Mostly women and children. It has just grown | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
massively since the first time I came. These two British doctors are | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
here with Hand in Hand for Syria - a UK charity which helped to set up | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
the camp, now the largest inside Syria. I have about 17 people trying | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
to hold my hand! My adopted children! Rola's family is from | :03:10. | :03:18. | |
Syria and she lived her as a child. Now she is an Intensive Care doctor | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
in London. Unfortunately, a lot of kids have | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
started to have horrible nightmares. Some that scream, some that have | :03:29. | :03:41. | |
gone mute. Are you all right? She has volunteered in war zones before, | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
but none compare to Syria. I am sure, despite best efforts by their | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
mums, they are filthy. Their hair is matted with dust and dirt. | :03:53. | :04:01. | |
You can see all these temporary little ditches being dug, draining | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
You can see all these temporary from the... It is summer. It is hot. | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
Perfect incubation environment for disease. I was asking the kids if | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
they like the camp. It was a resounded, no. It is a tough | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
they like the camp. It was a to grow up. | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
Even harder to be newborn here. Every tent holds a tragic story. | :04:25. | :04:33. | |
This man's six-year-old daughter was killed, his home destroyed. His wife | :04:33. | :04:42. | |
was pregnant at the time with twins. The girls are just a few weeks old. | :04:42. | :05:01. | |
I have been reporting from Syria for two years. By travelling the | :05:01. | :05:08. | |
doctors, I am hoping to see the humanitarian crisis through their | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
eyes. We can only film their work in | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
areas. Our journey begins just two days | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
after the chemical attack in Damascus. | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
Over two million people have left Syria, almost five million are | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
refugees in their own country. That's nearly one-third of the | :05:27. | :05:35. | |
population made homeless. You would normally expect to see a | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
lot of big foreign charities working in places like this, but because the | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
country has become so dangerous, very few of them dare to tread | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
across the border, meaning people are desperate for any kind of aid or | :05:48. | :05:55. | |
medical support. Despite the risks, Rola and Saleyha | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
have been asked by their charity to Despite the risks, Rola and Saleyha | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
check up on the hospitals it runs. been in a car crash. He shows signs | :06:04. | :06:29. | |
of brain injury. Oh, that is a nasty bump. Every day things happen - road | :06:29. | :06:36. | |
traffic accidents happen. The last couple of years, t focus has been on | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
trauma and war injuries that actually everything else has gotten | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
forgotten. Now we find ourselves two-and-a-half years down the road, | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
our whole health care system has essentially been destroyed. | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
Some painkillers would be helpful. Can I get some IV paracetamol? | :06:57. | :07:08. | |
No paracetamol? You don't have paracetamol? Had a tumble and a | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
fall. If he was with me at Queen's he would go for a CT scan. This is | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
fall. If he was with me at Queen's not Queen's in Essex, it is a | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
hospital in Aleppo Province. We cannot say where, because clinics | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
have been targeted by Government forces and on occasion shot at by | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
have been targeted by Government rebel troops. There's no scanner | :07:27. | :07:28. | |
here and he'll have to be moved. rebel troops. There's no scanner | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
We have no phone connection to speak to the receiving hospital. They tend | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
oh only receive war injuries. to the receiving hospital. They tend | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
There is a bit of a discussion about whether we can do that or not. | :07:41. | :07:48. | |
Eventually a vehicle is found, but it is not so much an ambulance as a | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
Transit Van. It is not the most comfortable way | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
to go. It is a sponge mat on the bottom of an empty van. Who is | :07:58. | :08:05. | |
travelling with him? One of the emergency nurses. I am giving him | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
our trauma kit. Rola wants to assess what the clinics on the ground need. | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
She has her first item. It seems we need an ambulance. | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
In a system overwhelmed by war injuries, civilian cases are not a | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
priority. In the end he does not get his brain scan. | :08:24. | :08:32. | |
The doctors are heading deeper into Syria, where the snoweds are -- | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
where the needs are greater, so too are the dangers. It is the first | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
time Saleyha would have gone this far into the country. | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
Should I be worried? Area does get shelled from the air. Sometimes | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
every night, sometimes every other night. A doctor said we are afraid | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
from the sky. Yes, absolutely. The night. A doctor said we are afraid | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
very nature of being here is it is unpredictable. | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
very nature of being here is it is We are heading to the rebel-held | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
parts of the north. There is a vehicle coming... An area I have | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
reported from often in the past. It is a dangerous patchwork of | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
territory that constantly changes hands. The Syrian Government says it | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
is rooting out terrorists and foreign fighters. Bombing rebel | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
bases. But its air campaign means foreign fighters. Bombing rebel | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
civilian areas are heavily pounded. The doctors want to see what medical | :09:27. | :09:40. | |
care is available for children closer to where the fighting is. | :09:40. | :09:49. | |
What are you doing? Trying to handle this flipping thing! | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
Right... I can't move! No, you can't move. You won't be able to move or | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
breathe, but you will be safe! There are reports of fighting ahead | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
and the team's security guards are worried. | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
What did they say? They are concerned about safety at the | :10:11. | :10:23. | |
location we're going to. Western journalists have been | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
targeted in Syria, so I have to travel with my own security. | :10:26. | :10:33. | |
The doctors are able to be more low-key and take their own vehicles. | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
The war in Syria is now in its third year. Sectarian differences and | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
extremism have taken hold on both sides and the conflict threatens the | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
extremism have taken hold on both stability of the region. | :10:46. | :10:53. | |
We are travelling around Syria, it has never been more dangerous, both | :10:53. | :11:00. | |
foreign journalists and foreign aid worker have been targeted. We are | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
going through a checkpoint now. Just worker have been targeted. We are | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
put the camera down a bit. Rebel factions fight each other as well as | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
the Government. Lawlessness prevails. In areas which were once | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
safe can become dangerous almost overnight. This is the Islamic state | :11:16. | :11:27. | |
of Iraq in Syria. It is affiliated with Al-Qaeda. Increasing numbers of | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
Jihadies have come in, they are setting up checkpoints, so it means | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
any foreigns, in particular travelling around the country, run | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
the gauntlet of these checkpoints every few miles or so. And the worse | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
thing about driving around is -- worst thing about driving around is | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
you are never sure what lies around the next corner. | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
The doctors have heard that the front-line clinic is short on | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
paediatric supplies. I just wanted to get a sense of what is there - | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
see what are they providing, what aren't they providing. No idea what | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
we will see. We have been hearing a huge amount of shelling overnight | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
from surrounding areas, so... As they get closer, it is clear the | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
reports of fighting are accurate. What did the guy at the checkpoint | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
say? The road we are meant to be taking has been closed off because C | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
and T barrels have been dropped on it all morning. It has destroyed the | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
route and it is closed off. And that it all morning. It has destroyed the | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
was from this morning? From an hour ago. OK. | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
We could have been on that road an hour ago. | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
The route to the frontline goes through a town that's been | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
consistently targeted by Government forces because rebel fighters have | :12:54. | :12:55. | |
consistently targeted by Government used it as a base. | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
We were hearing ohhen the local radio from -- we were hearing on the | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
local radio that they can see a helicopter up in the sky. It has | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
just dropped what, is frankly the largest bomb, creating the biggest | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
explosion I have seen in two years of covering Syria. | :13:11. | :13:18. | |
The barrel bomb was dropped from a helicopter. What it hit wasn't a | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
rebel base at all, but the local courthouse. | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
Media activists have filmed similar attacks on the town. In the centre | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
of the screen, you can see one of these barrel bombs s tumbling to the | :13:36. | :13:42. | |
ground, deadly and indiscriminate. It is not surprising so many have | :13:42. | :14:02. | |
fled their homes. As our convoy arrives at the frontline clinic, a | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
fighter jet was spotted overhead. We are told to take cover. | :14:07. | :14:14. | |
There is a plane flying above us and I have been told to go and run and | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
There is a plane flying above us and get under a tree. It is a little | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
tiny tree. I can't see it. I can get under a tree. It is a little | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
hear it. I can't see it. I'm very nervous. Everyone is agitated and we | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
can see smoke from just down the road behind us. Get in and get the | :14:31. | :14:39. | |
cars off the road and get out of here as soon as possible. | :14:39. | :14:50. | |
This child recites the Koran for the doctors. His dad is a surgeon and | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
with no school to go to, the eight-year-old spends his day | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
watching casualties come through the door. | :14:58. | :15:08. | |
I want to save people. This is the only place for miles around where | :15:08. | :15:14. | |
sick children can get help. This is the paediatric supply of medication. | :15:14. | :15:21. | |
20 odd bottles, similar to paracetamol along with a not very | :15:21. | :15:27. | |
useful medication. It is not an antibiotic. It is not going to save | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
a life basically. It is more a painkiller. | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
It is not just medicine that is in short supply, there are a few | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
willing to work here and those that are get little time off. They have | :15:41. | :15:47. | |
all been on call for the last 18 are get little time off. They have | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
days continuously. No rest. Living in the hospital. They can't go. Too | :15:51. | :15:58. | |
many people arriving. Not enough of them. | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
Four days later, we see the area being pounded by the Syrian Air | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
Force. The clinic is overwhelmed with | :16:05. | :16:24. | |
casualties. Rebel fighters wounded on the front-line. | :16:24. | :16:35. | |
Supplies are so short that the medics were giving blood to keep | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
their own patients alive. REPORTER: What's it like working in | :16:38. | :16:58. | |
this hospital? Children are at the forefront of | :16:58. | :17:39. | |
this conflict. They have sung and protested and even fought in the | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
war. On both sides of the divide, | :17:43. | :17:50. | |
children are becoming orphans and refugees. The next morning, we move | :17:50. | :17:58. | |
to a village a few miles west of the front-line. It is home to hundreds | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
of families who have been uprooted. This 11-year-old joins the scramble | :18:03. | :18:11. | |
at the village well for beginedling -- dwindling resources. | :18:11. | :18:29. | |
closed since the war began. Children used to come here to study, now they | :18:29. | :18:39. | |
live here as displaced families make homes of classrooms. The charity's | :18:39. | :18:48. | |
foot parcels are being delivered up the road from the well. She wants to | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
hear what children and families have been going through. | :18:54. | :19:34. | |
There are 50 people living in the school. Bravo. High five. | :19:34. | :19:54. | |
This man is 85 years old and he has been left with nothing. His home has | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
gone and his family dispersed and his health is deteriorating. | :19:57. | :20:08. | |
He is just saying that their village was attacked three months ago and | :20:09. | :20:16. | |
He is just saying that their village they had to leave with just the | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
clothes on their backs. These are all their families. They were all | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
moved en masse here. The old man can barely p see. He has | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
diabetes because he hasn't been able to get his medicine since the war | :20:28. | :20:29. | |
began. No school for two years. Nothing at | :20:29. | :20:43. | |
all. No education whatsoever. Saying that they have had no immunisations | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
also for two years. Now the village wants to re-open the | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
school. They have been told they have got four days to leave. And | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
where will all the people go that live here? | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
where will all the people go that Don't know. | :20:58. | :21:08. | |
Was quite -- I was quite blown away by the elderly gentleman's emotion. | :21:08. | :21:16. | |
A food basket although it is better than nothing is such a drop in the | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
ocean. It is not a home. It is not your health. It is not your | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
medication that you need. It is not your dignity back, it is not your | :21:24. | :21:45. | |
broken heart mended. We better go. The doctors keep getting moved on. | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
The guards are worried that if they stay anywhere too long they will | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
become a target. The next stop is at a new Children's | :21:54. | :22:01. | |
Hospital set-up by the charity. The doctors want to check supplies and | :22:01. | :22:02. | |
see what he level of care the mums doctors want to check supplies and | :22:02. | :22:08. | |
and babies are getting. Where is it? Shall we go down the stairs? | :22:08. | :22:17. | |
So the ward is running a little bit short because an an artillery shell. | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
There was a loud bang. An artillery shell landed near the hospital. Our | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
guards come in to tell us to leave. That sounded pretty close. It sounds | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
like this went down very close to where we were distributing our food | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
baskets earlier. The mums are going. They are trying | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
to go. She wants to go. | :22:40. | :22:57. | |
She wants to try and leave to go home. I think she should stay | :22:57. | :23:06. | |
indoors for now. It soon becomes clear that our presence is making | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
people nervous. We have been asked to leave with | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
people nervous. immediate effect due to a real | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
concern that we have been targeted here or rather the area is being | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
targeted because of us and I think we should do that. | :23:20. | :23:30. | |
Yeah. It is not clear what the shell was aimed at, but the UN has accused | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
Yeah. It is not clear what the shell the Government of systematically | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
Yeah. It is not clear what the shell targeting hospitals and medics. The | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
regime has denied this. It is so unheard of, unfortunately | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
medical facilities, hospitals, doctors have been targeted from day | :23:46. | :23:53. | |
one of this war. Let's go. Ready. OK. | :23:53. | :24:18. | |
At night, the lights of Government controlled cities in the distance | :24:18. | :24:24. | |
seem to taunt rebel held towns where the power has been cut. At another | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
school in the village, food parcels are handed out in the dark. Some are | :24:30. | :24:42. | |
school in the village, food parcels upset their names aren't on the | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
list. But despite the desperation, there is still warmth and a token of | :24:46. | :24:53. | |
hospitality. They bake bread which is just | :24:53. | :25:09. | |
delicious. But fear is never far from people's minds, sometimes when | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
the electricity goes out, it is a sign that the regime forces are | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
going to strike. My dad's family is from a very | :25:13. | :25:31. | |
similar background to most of the people we were meeting. Maybe we | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
open each other's wounds up. The one who says she lost her son or her | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
cousin or her dad and I just think who says she lost her son or her | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
of the family members we have lost. They are sort of bringing it up to | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
the surface and with that, they bring up my emotions to the surface | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
as well. Back near the Turkish borders crowds | :25:49. | :26:07. | |
gather outside a Children's Hospital set up by Hand In Hand. | :26:07. | :26:14. | |
This is the only place to get free childhood immunisations. | :26:14. | :26:23. | |
While the doctor is here, she is approached for help. This woman used | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
While the doctor is here, she is to be a nurse and now she lives in a | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
camp with other displaced families. I would love to go and see. I think | :26:28. | :26:53. | |
we should do that. The camp where the nurse lives has | :26:53. | :26:59. | |
about 160 tents, housing 250 families. | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
It is one of many squalid make-shift sites dotted around the border area. | :27:03. | :27:09. | |
She wants to me to come and see this patient here. | :27:09. | :27:23. | |
There is someone with fever, diarrhoea, headaches in pretty much | :27:23. | :27:32. | |
every single tent and it sounds like it is ous because one family member | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
after the other is getting unwell. It smells really awful. This sewage | :27:34. | :27:55. | |
water goes all the way past the water well which is by that triangle | :27:55. | :27:57. | |
water goes all the way past the of metal. | :27:57. | :28:03. | |
And this is why so many children here are getting sick. Raw sewage is | :28:03. | :28:10. | |
mixing with their own source of drinking water. | :28:10. | :28:14. | |
It is disgusting. I am not surprised everyone in their tent is sick. I am | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
surprised not everyone is dropping down dead. They describe multiple | :28:18. | :28:24. | |
cases of typhoid fever. It is contagious. They have been visited | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
and spoken to many international in. GOs and nothing. | :28:28. | :28:35. | |
I dare any of them to come and spend one day in this camp to live. Just | :28:35. | :28:39. | |
one day and see how they would like that. | :28:39. | :28:45. | |
The bureaucracy of the international NGOs is incredible. | :28:45. | :28:53. | |
I would be having some words. The threat of death hangs over Syria | :28:53. | :28:58. | |
even for those whose lives have just begun. All the more remarkable to | :28:58. | :29:04. | |
even for those whose lives have just see what is happening just two miles | :29:04. | :29:09. | |
up the road. The door of a dusty port a cabin opens on to a rare | :29:09. | :29:16. | |
moment of ultraviolet brilliance. Hello little one. | :29:16. | :29:21. | |
A hi-tech incubation unit funded by the charity. Those little fingers | :29:21. | :29:32. | |
are so small. Ah, you are waking up. Oh, a big yawn and a big stretch. | :29:32. | :29:39. | |
The stress and deprivation of war led to a huge rise in premature | :29:39. | :29:50. | |
births. Before the hospital, we just had no way of dealing with them and | :29:50. | :29:56. | |
a lot of them did die. I didn't think you want to eat that, darling. | :29:56. | :30:02. | |
Little one. I don't think you should eat my glove. I think you should | :30:02. | :30:09. | |
eat, you are hungry. You are hungry. Is that why you are so grumpy? She | :30:09. | :30:14. | |
was born yesterday. It is amazing to see this from an inception of an | :30:14. | :30:19. | |
was born yesterday. It is amazing to idea to the full birth of a Special | :30:19. | :30:25. | |
Care Baby Unit. It is that glimmer of hope in what looks like an | :30:25. | :30:30. | |
endless sea of despair and a bit that makes you think right, it is | :30:30. | :30:32. | |
all worth it, you know, keep going. The doctors return to the hospital | :30:32. | :30:48. | |
where their journey into Syria started. No one could have imagined | :30:48. | :30:52. | |
how this day would end. Or the terrible events that would | :30:52. | :30:55. | |
unfold. Don't hold the face so hard. Or the terrible events that would | :30:55. | :31:06. | |
He is burned. A seven-month-old baby boy has been | :31:06. | :31:10. | |
brought in with severe burns. No one is sure what happened. OK. This baby | :31:10. | :31:23. | |
needs to be picked up. Are you the dad? | :31:23. | :31:24. | |
Are you the father? You sit down and dad? | :31:24. | :31:32. | |
you hold the baby. This is crazy. Half the kit we are | :31:32. | :31:38. | |
not getting or we don't have access to. Everything is adult size. | :31:38. | :31:44. | |
Here we have someone else. OK. Some kind of airstrike seems to have | :31:44. | :32:01. | |
taken place. Most of the casualties are | :32:01. | :32:05. | |
teenagers. They are saying a bomb has landed in their school | :32:05. | :32:10. | |
playground. There is dozens of people who have just been rushed in. | :32:10. | :32:15. | |
A couple who have been burned and white powder dust. Their clothes are | :32:15. | :32:20. | |
hanging off them. It is only five days since the chemical attack in | :32:20. | :32:23. | |
hanging off them. It is only five Damascus and everyone is terrified | :32:23. | :32:25. | |
hanging off them. It is only five that there has just been another | :32:25. | :32:30. | |
one. It is just chaos and carnage here. | :32:30. | :32:35. | |
We have had a massive influx of what look like serious burns it seems | :32:35. | :32:40. | |
We have had a massive influx of what like it must be some chemical | :32:40. | :32:44. | |
weapon. I am not really sure. We don't know what we're dealing with. | :32:44. | :32:48. | |
The doctor orders all casualties and anyone who touched the victims to be | :32:48. | :32:50. | |
doused in water. The casualties just keep on coming | :32:50. | :33:06. | |
in. The truth is they can't barely begin to cope inside here. There are | :33:06. | :33:10. | |
a few beds which is why people are laid out on the floorment one thing | :33:10. | :33:13. | |
that the camera will not tell you is the smell that's in the air. It is a | :33:13. | :33:18. | |
sickening smell of burning flesh. It is a horrific scene. The staff are | :33:18. | :33:23. | |
sickening smell of burning flesh. It handing these out. The fear is they | :33:23. | :33:26. | |
don't know what happened and they fear it maybe a chemical attack. | :33:26. | :33:36. | |
There were no shrapnel injuries or loss of blood, typical of most | :33:36. | :33:41. | |
aerial bombs. It caused burns, consistent with an insendry device | :33:41. | :33:50. | |
rather than a chemical weapon. This 13-year-old is in shock. He is | :33:50. | :33:53. | |
one of the youngest victims to come in. | :33:53. | :33:57. | |
The emergency ward is full. So he is told to wait in the corridor. | :33:57. | :34:13. | |
Within minutes, the hospital is overwhelmed. | :34:13. | :34:27. | |
It looks like he was 13 or 14. Just a kid. Where their emergency | :34:27. | :34:39. | |
experience, the doctors take charge dealing with the most serious cases. | :34:39. | :34:46. | |
Let me do that. Get an ID line in as soon as you can. | :34:46. | :34:54. | |
Oh my goodness. The chest wall is rising. That's fine. OK. OK. OK. | :34:54. | :35:08. | |
Has he had any painkillers? Morphine. OK. That's better than | :35:08. | :35:23. | |
nothing. How are we doing for painkillers? | :35:23. | :35:33. | |
I think there is more coming. I think there is more coming. As you | :35:33. | :35:38. | |
can see, it is just chaos. He is already tubed. It is fine. It | :35:38. | :35:59. | |
is supporting his airwaves. We can do first aid. We can provide any | :35:59. | :36:07. | |
resuscitation required, but no specific treatment. | :36:07. | :36:57. | |
I'm so bad, so bad! I know, but you are in the right place, OK? | :36:57. | :37:14. | |
This 18-year-old had been sat in a maths class when the blast ripped | :37:14. | :37:20. | |
through the window. I am improvising in ways I have | :37:20. | :37:41. | |
never been forced to do because of lack of equipment. As you can see, | :37:41. | :37:46. | |
there's nothing coming up on this foot for me to put this in. | :37:46. | :37:52. | |
This is heartbreaking! Most of the people have got 70-90% | :37:52. | :38:01. | |
burns, they will start to lose a lot of fluid. Some will start to have | :38:01. | :38:08. | |
difficulty breathing. They will need Intensive Care therapy, which we | :38:08. | :38:12. | |
cannot provide. They will have to go to Turkey and be referred on from | :38:12. | :38:16. | |
there. They all need transfer. They are all | :38:16. | :38:24. | |
50 and above. 54. He is 86. OK. So fine. First two ambulances | :38:24. | :38:27. | |
are going. I thought it was just never going to | :38:27. | :39:06. | |
end. We lost a gentleman on transfer to Bab-al-Hawa. I have never seen a | :39:06. | :39:10. | |
burn that bad. I think his face is going to | :39:10. | :39:14. | |
actually stay with me for quoit a long time -- quite a long time. | :39:14. | :39:28. | |
Today, it was like something out of Armageddon. Out of all the war | :39:28. | :39:33. | |
zonesvy been to, today -- zones I have been to, today has been the | :39:33. | :39:38. | |
worst. The fact they were children, teenagers, the same ages as my | :39:38. | :39:43. | |
nieces and nephews. I feel so angry right now. | :39:43. | :39:47. | |
I feel so, so angry. The whole world has been watching us | :39:47. | :40:11. | |
for two-and-a-half years. We feel like some sort of, not even a | :40:11. | :40:19. | |
second-class citizen, like we just don't matter. Like all of these | :40:19. | :40:21. | |
children and all of these people who don't matter. Like all of these | :40:21. | :40:27. | |
are being killed and massacred - we don't matter. The whole world has | :40:27. | :40:32. | |
failed our nation and it is innocent civilians who are paying the price. | :40:32. | :40:39. | |
It is an absolute disgrace on the UN and all of humanity. | :40:39. | :41:05. | |
Two days later, we reached the school. | :41:06. | :41:15. | |
People say they saw a plane circling above. | :41:15. | :41:22. | |
The headmaster is still too afraid to show his face. | :41:22. | :41:27. | |
The smell at the scene and the debris suggests it was an incendiary | :41:27. | :41:33. | |
bomb. Not a chemical weapon, but a | :41:33. | :41:37. | |
conventional one. More than 100 countries have banned their use | :41:37. | :41:40. | |
against civilians. But not Syria. to pick up his little is sister from | :41:40. | :42:51. | |
school and this 14-year-old, who was in the playground when the bomb | :42:51. | :42:53. | |
landed. Three of the ten children in the playground when the bomb | :42:53. | :43:02. | |
who died. This 13-year-old was described as a | :43:02. | :43:06. | |
hard-working student with a smiley face. He did survive. We found him a | :43:06. | :43:11. | |
few weeks after the attack in hospital in Turkey, with 40% | :43:11. | :43:13. | |
few weeks after the attack in to his body. | :43:13. | :43:20. | |
18-year-old Siham was in her final year of school, one of the smartest | :43:20. | :43:28. | |
in her class. She is also in Turkey for treatment, | :43:29. | :43:31. | |
with 70% burns. The controversy over chemical | :43:31. | :44:28. | |
weapons has died down. But the suffering doesn't stop. And the | :44:28. | :44:35. | |
killing doesn't end. Rola and Saleyha have left Syria and | :44:35. | :44:39. | |
are back at work in British hospitals. It is only the efforts of | :44:39. | :44:44. | |
the few that brings any relief to a nation beset by despair. | :44:44. | :44:53. | |
And to the millions of children here, who are alone and forgotten. | :44:53. | :44:59. |