Health & Fitness
UPenn Doctor Traveled Overseas To Help Syria, Turkey With Deadly Earthquakes
"These are community members that were pulling rubble out themselves with their hands to try and save their family members," Dr. Ahmed said.
March 6, 2023
On Sunday night, a critical care physician from the University of Pennsylvania is back from Syria and Turkey after spending 10 days trying to help people devastated by last month's deadly earthquake.
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"Just the heartache - you feel that everywhere - no one has to say anything you feel it," Dr. Nahreen Ahmed, the medical director of MedGlobal, said.
Days after returning home from the Turkey-Syria border, Dr. Ahmed described the devastation so many families are facing following the 7.5 magnitude earthquake that leveled cities and killed more 50,000 people
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