Instagram Story - 12 slides (ENGLISH VERSION)

TEXT ON SCREEN:

- Slide 01 (white background — 1 quote):
1_My name is Mohammad Al Youssef and I am from Syria.

- Slide 02 (illustration of a surgery with kidney highlighted — 3 quotes)
1_ “Ten years ago, I underwent a kidney transplant.
2_ In that moment, I switched roles.
3_ I was not the doctor anymore, I became the patient.

- Slide 03 (illustration of the doctor’s portrait — 2 quotes)
1_ This operation turned out to be a decisive moment in my life.
2_ Today, I am one of the only doctors in northern Syria providing treatment for patients who underwent a kidney transplant.

- Slide 04 (illustration of the doctor’s hand with pills — 2 quotes)
1_ Before the war broke out in Syria, these patients’ treatment was quite straightforward.
2_ But in 2011, everything changed.

- Slide 05 (illustration of a checkpoint — 2 quotes)
1_ Checkpoints started to appear on the roads and people could not go in and out to receive their treatment anymore.
2_ Depending on where you were from, you could get arrested or even killed. It did not matter if you were sick …

- Slide 06 (illustration of 2 boxes with medicines and MSF’ stickers — 2 quotes)
1_ That’s why, in 2014, I decided to reach out to MSF.
2_ They agreed to support these patients and to provide the treatment that would keep them alive.

- Slide 07 (illustration of the doctor shaking hand with a patient and wife — 1 quote)
1_ This made me incredibly happy.
The situation of these patients had been completely overlooked by most NGOs.

- Slide 08 (illustration of a pile of files — 1 quote)
1_ The cohort I started to follow grew over the next few months and years.

- Slide 09 (illustration of several patients taking their medication)
1_ From 22 patients, I started to treat 45, then 73 and then almost a hundred!

- Slide 10 (illustration of the doctor writing a prescription to an old woman — 1 quote)
1_ Taking care of these patients for the past five years has changed me.

- Slide 11 (white background - 2 quotes)
1_ When people talk about Syria, we often hear about wounds and trauma injuries.
2_ There is little to no focus on what the situation can be like for patients who underwent a transplant and now need life-saving treatment.”

- Slide 12 (white background - 1 quote)
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