Injuries from explosions are often complex, including severe burns, bones shattered in multiple places or missing altogether, and a high risk of infection from debris entering the wounds.
“Most of the countries around us can at least offer emergency surgeries at a good level, so most of the patients are well treated in the beginning,” said Rasheed Fakhri, a surgeon with the international medical charity Doctors without Borders (MSF) in Jordan. They are now among the nearly 630,000 Syrian refugees registered here, around one in 20 of whom are wounded, according to the charity Handicap International. The girls had life-saving operations in a field hospital in Syria, and soon afterwards the family fled to Jordan. She had been playing in the street with water, he said. “But Duaa lost her leg instantly when the bomb hit our house – it was gone.” They wanted to amputate her leg but I refused,” said Hasan, sitting on the floor of his sparse living room and pointing to the jagged scars on his older daughter’s knee. “Shahd’s knee was broken it was shattered. The attack seriously injured two of their young daughters: Shahd, who was four years old at the time, and Duaa, who was just one. Two years ago, their home in the southern Syrian city of Daraa was destroyed in an explosion. “Sometimes the shells even fall over here.” “We hear the bombings in Syria every day,” Hasan told Al Jazeera. In the early hours, they often hear the thuds and cracks of intense fighting. The one-bedroom house that Lama shares with her husband, Hasan, and their six children in the Jordanian town of Ramtha is a few kilometres from the Syrian border. The Sarhan family often wake up early in the morning to a fearful reminder of what they escaped.
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