Syria’s largest city once had 2,000 doctors. In September of this year he returned to the city, which he describes as unrecognisable from the place he visited only a year earlier. In 2013, London based trauma surgeon Dr David Nott travelled to Aleppo to train local doctors. Millions have been displaced, with the UN estimating that almost 200,000 people have been killed since the civil war began with many hundreds of thousands more injured. The civil war in Syria is now in its fourth year and has created one of the greatest humanitarian catastrophes in the world right now. Amid the horror, these medical teams risk their lives to save others. We see him carrying out life-saving surgery in a hospital forced underground by daily bombardment. Tonight (Wed 10 December), Channel 4 will broadcast A&E in the War Zone, a film about Dr David Nott’s perilous journey across the border into Syria to work alongside the last remaining Syrian doctors in Aleppo. Hospitals in the war torn city of Aleppo are being forced underground because of a deliberate bombing campaign by Syrian government forces, says one of Britain’s leading trauma surgeons, who has recently returned from the region.
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