Life as an obstetrician in a war zone

Name: Life as an obstetrician in a war zone
Uploaded: 2016-08-22T19:52:54.000Z
Duration: 2 min 8 s
Description: In a video diary for the BBC, an Aleppo obstetrician performs an emergency caesarean section during one of the city's many power blackouts.

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In Aleppo, Syria, Doctor Farida - an obstetrician and gynaecologist - faces a daily battle to deliver babies amid war.

In a video diary for the BBC, she performs an emergency caesarean section, partly during one of the city's many power blackouts.

Produced by Marko Zoric and Zak Brophy, BBC's UGC and Social News team.

Middle East

22 August 2016