Middle East

Aleppo ambulance volunteers take the strain

Civilian organisation sets up a new service to ferry wounded and provide aid in Syria's largest city.
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2012 20:37

As the fighting intensifies in Syria, medical services are fully stretched. But nowhere more so than in Aleppo, where they are at breaking point.

Now a civilian organisation calling itself "Sedk," the Arabic word for honesty, is setting up a special ambulance service.

Al Jazeera’s Andrew Simmons joined them for a day.

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