Syria Civil War: Mouawiya Syasneh was just ... We wrote on the school wall, ‘Your turn next, Doctor (Assad).’ A few days later the police saw what we’d written and rounded up the boys ...

“Your turn has come, doctor” in the city of Daraa. At such a young age, he didn’t understand in 2011 the meaning behind the statement, but he does remember his mom looking “a little ...

Rass agreed that the number of medical students and young doctors has increased in Syria since he was in school there, but the medical infrastructure and opportunities have remained stagnant.

An estimated 5,000 Syrian doctors work in hospitals alone. Health Minister Karl Lauterbach, who puts the total number of Syrian doctors at over 6,000, says they are “indispensable” to health care.