WEBCLIP: Mosul, Iraq. Anna Leticia NERY tells story of family escaping Mosul (INT)

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WEBCLIP: Mosul, Iraq. Anna Leticia NERY tells story of family escaping Mosul (ENG)

VIDEO. Mosul, Iraq: MSF treating emergencies in Qayyarah hospital

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Unique Identifier Code / URN MSF193234

Date taken / Date Recorded 07/04/2017 12:00 AM

Country Iraq

Commissioning section MSF-FRANCE

Photographer / videographer / producer Mohammad Ghannam

Usage Rights (MSF) External Media

Formal Consent Copy available no

Editor's rating ★★★ (F)

Video format h264 (Constrained Baseline) (avc1 / 0x31637661)

Duration 1m34s

Maximum Size 1920px × 1080px 163.41 MB

Additional Information / Shotlist One of the stories that we remember the most in Qayyarah was of a family we received, they were coming from frontline in West Mosul. The mother and the father and their 5 children were trying to escape the war. Escaping from ISIS-controlled area to the Iraqi-controlled area, there is a no man's land and this no man's land is full of unexploded devices. As they were escaping, the father stepped on an unexploded device and disappeared in a cloud of smoke. The mother told us that she was trying to see something but she couldn't and she hit her head. When she woke up she just saw the bodies of her children lying on the dirt. She collected them. They were still alive and she brought them to a house where they waited for the fighting to calm down. After that she was able to reach an ambulance and to come to us. Two of the children were rushed into OT and the other one had to be admitted. And what was astonishing to us is to see how much they were psychologically damaged by what had happened. They were quiet and not speaking and the mother seemed to be in a different world, she was not communicating. And with time, I feel like we were able to produce a safe environment. And small things could be celebrated by the team: we could celebrate when they were eating together or when they were laughing, or the first time that the mother took the child out to see the sun... And when we were able to discharge them, we felt that they had rebuilt a bit of their lives back in our hospital.
Ana Leticia NERY, médecin,

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Iraq