Walat Khalil, a surgeon at Al Amal Hospital in the Kurdish-majority city of Kobani in Syria, has been working non-stop for more than 10 days.
With no running water or fuel, and only limited access to food and medicine, he has been treating civilians injured in clashes between the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a well-armed Kurdish organisation in the north-east that was once among the most powerful in Syria, and Syrian troops.
His latest patients include three children younger than eight and a girl, 13, with shrapnel in her chest. “We’re doing what we can to help,” Dr Khalil said.
The surgeon has been volunteering at the hospital since the clashes broke out, treating patients free of charge. “The fate of the city is tied to my own,” he said.
Kobani is one of the last pockets controlled by the SDF in the north-east.
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