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We were at a protest. There were a lot of people. The internal and external security forces were there, as was the air force. They were all there. They started using tear gas and throwing stones. We got angry and started throwing stones too. They started shooting at us. I was hit by a sniper. The bullet entered my chest and came out at my waist. I stayed in a coma for 4 days. The bullet entered my chest here and came out at my waist. It damaged my right lung, my liver, my intestines and my gallbladder. The nerve root was severed which is why I have a limp. I was in a coma at the hospital for 4 days. I was put on a mechanical ventilator because I couldn’t breathe. When I woke up, I was in the ICU at a private hospital. After I left, my lungs filled with water. I could hardly breathe. I was taken to Damascus by ambulance, to try to get treatment for my lungs. At the hospital in Damascus, they could only keep me for half an hour before they had to make me leave through the back door. Don’t mention the hospital’s name or else the security forces could arrest me. After that I went back to the public hospital. But they came looking for me again and I escaped through the back door a second time. They wrapped me up in a blanket and put me in a pick-up truck. They had to get rid of me, they left me in a town called Tal Shihab. I had been there for four days when my wound opened up again. So once again, I was transferred from one hospital to another, looking for a doctor who could operate again or stitch the wound. At first they tried applying a pressure dressing over my wound. And then the wound opened again. So when the road was safe, they took me back to the hospital again where they took out my stitches and operated again. Just after we'd left the hospital, the armed forces came back again.
This patient arrived in Jordan a year after he was wounded. Today, despite frequent contact with his family still in Syria, he has not managed to get them into Jordan.
We were at a protest. There were a lot of people. The internal and external security forces were there, as was the air force. They were all there. They started using tear gas and throwing stones. We got angry and started throwing stones too. They started shooting at us. I was hit by a sniper. The bullet entered my chest and came out at my waist. I stayed in a coma for 4 days. The bullet entered my chest here and came out at my waist. It damaged my right lung, my liver, my intestines and my gallbladder. The nerve root was severed which is why I have a limp. I was in a coma at the hospital for 4 days. I was put on a mechanical ventilator because I couldn’t breathe. When I woke up, I was in the ICU at a private hospital. After I left, my lungs filled with water. I could hardly breathe. I was taken to Damascus by ambulance, to try to get treatment for my lungs. At the hospital in Damascus, they could only keep me for half an hour before they had to make me leave through the back door. Don’t mention the hospital’s name or else the security forces could arrest me. After that I went back to the public hospital. But they came looking for me again and I escaped through the back door a second time. They wrapped me up in a blanket and put me in a pick-up truck. They had to get rid of me, they left me in a town called Tal Shihab. I had been there for four days when my wound opened up again. So once again, I was transferred from one hospital to another, looking for a doctor who could operate again or stitch the wound. At first they tried applying a pressure dressing over my wound. And then the wound opened again. So when the road was safe, they took me back to the hospital again where they took out my stitches and operated again. Just after we'd left the hospital, the armed forces came back again.
This patient arrived in Jordan a year after he was wounded. Today, despite frequent contact with his family still in Syria, he has not managed to get them into Jordan.
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