Al Jazeera, July 2015 | In-depth feature
Injuries from bombs and bullets are hard to fix. Bones shatter in multiple places or are missing altogether, severe burns are common, and a there’s a high risk of infection.
Of the up to 1.3 million Syrians who have fled to neighbouring Jordan, an estimated one in twenty are disabled.
I visited a medical facility where some of them end up: a specialist reconstructive surgery hospital in Jordan’s capital, Amman.
Here children and adults are treated for free by the hospital’s surgeons and physiotherapists, many of whom have themselves fled the region’s conflicts.
You can also watch a film I directed on the same hospital.
Sylvia Rowley 