Syria

Since the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024, the country’s borders are now open, which has provided us with a vital opportunity for members of our team to visit and see how we can best support the Syrian people in a surgical capacity as they rebuild.

Syria’s health system is on the brink after 14 years of devastating conflict which began in 2011, when a peaceful revolution was violently suppressed by the government. Since then, over 14 million people have been forcibly displaced from their homes over the past 14 years and seven out of ten Syrians require humanitarian assistance.

Our action in Syria

volunteering in aleppo

Our Co-Founder David volunteer his surgical skills in eastern Aleppo in 2012, 2013, and 2014. After hours of operating he shared his knowledge with local Syrian doctors.

SURGICAL MISSIONS

SURGERIES IN IDLIB

When the people of Aleppo were forcibly displaced in December 2016, David travelled to Idlib, northwest Syria, to operate on the injured and help the wounded who left the city.

LATEST IDLIB MISSION

FIRST FRONTLINE COURSE

Our first ever frontline surgical training course was run in Gaziantep, Turkey, for Syrian surgeons in March 2016. That December, another 32 surgeons were upskilled.

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50 SURGEONS TRAINED

In July 2019, 24 surgeons were trained in Syria, and another 26 Syrians were empowered with life-saving surgical knowledge in Gaziantep, Turkey, in 2022.

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EARTHQUAKE MISSION

In 2023, an earthquake shook northwest Syria and Türkiye. We upskilled 23 Syrian doctors to manage complex injuries that require long-term rehabilitation.

NEEDS IN SYRIA

CERVICAL SCREENING

In September 2023, Faculty Lead for Syria, Dr Saladin Sawan, upskilled 41 surgical residents to improve screening and treatments for women with cervical cancer.

WOMEN DESERVE BETTER

“We learned how to be multi-tasking surgeons. I can now do surgery on the kidney, heart, vessels. This is the notion of the multi-tasking doctor. A lot of lives have been saved.”
Dr Mahmoud Hariri, Syria

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