Dr. Imran Akbar, an anesthesiologist at Advocate Christ Medical Center, performed surgery on a 4-year-old boy who was injured by the earthquakes in Syria and Turkey. He points out how a natural disaster of this magnitude will have lasting effects.
Dr. Zaher Sahloul is president and co-founder of MedGlobal, an associate professor at UIC and a pulmonary and critical care specialist at Advocate Christ Medical Center and Saint Anthony Hospitals. He was one of the doctors who traveled to Turkey and Syria.“You see signs of a previous life, you see the homework books, you see blankets, pillows, toys; things that tell you that there were people there under the rubble,” Sahloul said.
Akbar performed surgery on a 4-year-old boy who was injured by the rubble. The boy not only lost part of his foot but lost all of his family, except for his father. “To see that, to see how his life is going to be affected from here on out, not just from the trauma from losing his foot, but losing his family, his place of living and so forth and the trauma that his family will have to deal with,” Akbar said.
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