Moved the berlin based Aid Organization conduce treats people whove been injured or wounded in the war with socalled islamic state. They havent seen a doctor in three years imagine that and now they need some kind of medical care and it seems awful to all. Day work where others fear to tread right behind the front lines in villages that have just been liberated from i. A. S. Whited. Air bill is the capital of the autonomy region of kurdistan in Northern Iraq the local. Headquarters of carters is in the district of on kala where a rented house serves as both office and accommodation. Final preparations for a mission are underway but despise what i see and i know what can go wrong i know it can happen to the team which is one of the reasons why we have to work so closely with the military. Is the wrong expression its more like treating the violence with respect in a negative sense its immense. Divide so humans who have a. Shave bellman is responsible for the mission in iraq the former event manager has been in Northern Iraq for months she coordinates carter says work in the war zone as. Its roots i am very you know when you have a baby or to sit down together get organized and start it in a book or look down on fronts without a. High sig is a surgeon in berlin hes taken two weeks leave for this mission the team aims to set up right behind the front line in a couple of days. Its hard to see what its like talking all the talking all stick equipments into a single box that everythings in the same place but the great includes devices for measuring blood glucose and Blood Pressure looking inside and an ultrasound device to cope with the windows open. Is international the current crew is made up of two doctors a paramedic and a nurse. The. Canadian heather doll has often worked in crisis sounds right i wanted to come and work in iraq because i have been working so far once a year going to haiti and doing medical clinics there and a few years ago there was a big tide in the. P. M. s and when tested relief worker with a nurse friend of mine and im the only korea here here but everybody else is very young twentys i guess but im a grandmother and here to help as much as i can. Cutters was founded less than three years ago crews of volunteers change regularly they need a range of permits to operate in the war zone. Office manager preopen free takes care of that side of things and i guess the risk is always that things change so quickly so today or tomorrow morning when we leave they can say last the perimeter is five and its safe to go ahead there by the time we get there something that a change they might have retreated from i might have moved. So i think the uncertainty of the situation is always the biggest danger but we do our best to try and sort of be informed and be mobile and be organized so that we can move back and forth as the situation changes. The missions are agreed in coordination with the World Health Organization fay bollman also has to coordinate with the iraqi army for security reasons. The destination for cultures this time is the region of how we just outside the kurdish autonomy is region. To specializes in treating seriously wounded victims of war to get to the war zone the crew needs passes and special permits for both the kurdish and the iraqi territories. Has ever played living in st lawrence from little definitely has a lot of checkpoints just as we have permits for all of them theyre all in our list. Even but the problem is things can change overnight. And all of the nasal ways some issues the most but it does and that can cause us to laze this is. Filming is strictly prohibited at the checkpoints. The convoy leaves and heading toward. From there it heads south toward. At the time of filming most of the area around the city was held by the i. A. S. Twelve hours later in the early evening the crew reaches the war zone the iraqi army only reconquered the villages in the area just a few days previously. The cutters crew is put up in a house requisition by the army the iraqi Army Medical Corps has already set up a makeshift Field Hospital next door. If you look. At it. Its he quipped with the bare minimum to treat the wounded this is where the cut to screw will work. Thats the son of man who thought this surgery has five beds its going to. We basically use it to stabilize patients and not for them to make the journey to the merest hospital. The area was the scene of fierce fighting just a few days earlier i asked fighters had taken up positions on the roof of the building now iraqi Army Vehicles are advancing. The special u. S. Army unit is also operating within sight of the katters team officially they are there in an advisory capacity but their Armored Vehicles suggest otherwise exactly how many u. S. Soldiers are involved in the fight against i. A. S. Is kept secret. The responsible medical officer from the iraqi army is major. Hammad haasan he decides we are cutters can and cant go then i envision all modern ill finish all the machines alive to the. Ok finish finished the bottle in years until now i think they can you know exist. Nor have any information on your machine in your machine i think in the few next days beginning a new mission but you know no information on this machine. The offensive made faster progress than expected but without major casualties already attention is turning to how to help the civilian population in the liberated villages. Cutlers is based in berlin it was founded by sebastian you know mom a qualified psychologist and paramedic. In a workshop beneath the rail track boxes are welded spare parts prepared and vehicles refit it some of the staff have known each other for years they used to organize Music Festivals now they want to save lives you know money is no stranger to International Aid work. It was a good for you i never really liked the way the missions my set up all the working out my spear in the Aid Organizations i spent more than ten years old and eyes in festivals with people who were enthusiastic and fun to work with and then one day we had the idea of trying to translate this excellent cooperation into an eight context to this. Politics with its approach. Because carters doesnt get any government funding all its staff are volunteers they want to save people from war and injustice in the world. I think its important to help these people so im happy to spend my time here. I do because i have no medical or Technical Training so i do what i can to make my contribution to the chicago. Found my way environ bollen tree in township and i can identify would have values of a humane value of. Things we should be able to take for granted that everybody can live in freedom and equality. You know personally takes part of the missions he has to raise money otherwise could not exist. The silly false info. For some of us its a full time job with no regular pagel the motivation comes from somewhere else i wish the projects were paid for by third parties so that we would not have to rely one hundred percent on donations to it because its a daily struggle that really takes it out of you. And i hope it continues to grow out of just us that nobody gets hurt titans and that we can carry out more projects just female wish we had to push. Down twice a week to unum and works as a bouncer in a popular berlin nightclub its the only way he can earn a regular wage and keep his National Health insurance. A little thats all it is a just cause when you found an organization like this you dont have enough money at the start of the space or you have to choose between spending donations on yourself putting them into projects or finding other sources of income that i can earn money at night and when i say i have to go away from us to take part in emissions by accommodates actors then we could assume that just about and im grateful. To so also through some type of a movie. You know man lives his life between the nightclub and the war zone. Its day three after the volunteers arrival in how we germans. Its time to get to work surgeon much is up at the crack of dawn getting ready for the Cruise Mission in a village that was liberated just a couple of days ago. Here for the fight. I just saw today going to a Little Village where the people probably havent seen a doctor in three is. Enough this is not just the surface until very recently it was all i. Actually thats now being liberated. You. Will see how the civilian population is to it and try to help where they can no many a focus on trauma patients but in this case they are natural the patients with this advise part of. The of the people need is primary medical ok i did my bit its. The convoy now including three iraqi Army Ambulances head south making a big detour to steer clear of territory still held by i. A. S. Dr heather dahl is expecting to encounter a range of every day illnesses. Probably ceasing to hydration children and adults and then well see chronic medical conditions maybe some. Im going to do a small minor surgery procedure on a patient email thank you so were all pretty much all of the medications that care for primary care as well as our emergency x. For if we have to treat anybody from the first morning. When the war broke out many doctors fled. And theres simply no medicine left here. Now its up to cutters to help although thats not what it was set up for according to the volunteers this is kind of all of them we can offer a Long Term Care here thats for the iraqi state to do of all right so what we can do here is just a drop in the ocean were not in a position to organize anything long term that was all that is avoidable. This streets are badly damaged from the fighting. One of the iraqi ambulances runs into trouble one of its bumpers has come loose. Stopping is always risky there are improvised explosive devices almost everywhere. On the way into the village the volunteers encounter huge convoys of fighters including the notorious shia militias who are accused of committing war crimes its best to avoid them but the volunteers are not scared. Something tight told me mad and im sure some people see the time still feel quite safe enough said the captain and we havent had to put on a flak jackets and they havent been any critical situation everythings been calm so far and. It takes the convoy around two hours to cover seventy kilometers finally it arrives in the village of sharia the army has selected what it deems a safe house. So that. We always have to be on the lookout for booby traps everywhere because. I was like that as long as we stick to the very its we know have been used this before us it should be ok if on board and a lot of the gun. As the signs are clear. The cutters team has to hit the ground running because its not clear how long the army will stay here with the crew turns a former living room into a surgery. This is a virus he said what. Led to this is doing is organizing things by class of medication so that we can access it quickly and hopefully be able to get medications for each of these examining beds. Within minutes of the cruise arrival people start coming in droves. One man brings his injured son saying he fell from a tree there is no telling how true that is. The full fall of the bomb will be felt just built on the wall well see what the boy is suffering from pain. In in his legs and back. The doctors instructions are translated by tiger occurred from the air below area. Mathias high sick examines the boy but without an x. Ray machine cant make a diagnosis his main complaint of pain seems to only in his the essex mind here its possible because he landed on his feet that he had to have a compression fracture this vertebra at that level for there is nothing one minute that is for sure out. Of the doctors also suspect concussion all they can give them is pain killers and medical advice tiger can you explain that with hip injury takes a while for the brain to get better. It was awful awful did you feel dizzy that i feel your body doing trouble trouble or still. Get it right it was a little bit of serious trouble with memory. As the day progresses more and more people arrive this old woman cant walk another collapses right in front of the doctors an elderly man complains of heart problems its hard to make a diagnosis as i stood up without sleep a selfie has problems with his heart especially when stressed that suggests a cardiac insufficiency which is hard to treat long term in this situation it could be stress but its probably a chronic illness its hard to establish that in a brief conversation this. This young man has an infected abscess behind his ear known as an at the roma he needs to have it lanced otherwise he could get blood poisoning. Yes and its also why he had an infected after almost a high dizzier that we had to open up to the city in principle thats something we can do here and it would require an operating theatre in germany either we just need local sterilization but we cant tell how well the wound will be treated after. Its normally we would remove the capsule we didnt do it in this case because it would have caused heavy bleeding there is also the risk is that it will come back and its stripped off whos going to decide. This if. This fourteen year old boy can hardly walk his means are deformed theres little the doctors here can do i believe really needs to see a right to tell it just was especially at the earliest at that at this point it is very worrying that it will be a very it was a well this was especially as a liberal whole while it was a cause. After five hours lines of patients still arent getting any shorter the doctors and medics work without a break until theyre at their limits. Or if you know its really just because we work as fast as possible because theres a long line and we dont have that much time its like a Conveyor Belt but we do try to take time for every patient. The condos mission in iraq began in mosul where you know man and his staff set up a mobile First Aid Center right behind the front lines on behalf of the World Health Organization. They turned a former car garage into an emergency room. While the iraqi Army Advanced on i asked positions in the old town civilians arrived around the clock many of them had shrapnel or gunshot wounds. Sebastian unum and spent several weeks here with his team trying to treat the many casualties for. A. Regrettable if there were a fair bit of good thats up. In international jargon and emergency room like this is known as a t. S. P. In his piece i almost said it was a ship. And the t. S. P. Is a trauma stabilization point that means its not a hospital where we can perform surgery but were right behind the front lines and we keep following along with the first port of call for the wounded civilians all combatants regardless of what side they belong to or. Where they had to save lives we want to stabilize the patient so if they can be transported to a proper hospital because law is guilty. And the surgeon. Is looking after an injured boy im leery about his need for that we dont know where theyre from as all of us its often like that here that civilians are brought in from somewhere and any old vehicle rather than an ambulance one thats a very good id liefer did a quick look at this guy tells me that hes reasonably stable because i mean his life is not in acute danger his knees are toward limbs could fit. The boy his upper body covered with inadequately treated and burns arrived with another injured boy three days ago. The fits right that were in the if a mortar rounds landed near him a couple of days ago and he sustained these wounds it will be. Ok. Sure. He will take off the bandages if they. Want shifty new year old our boss was at home when the shells hit the doctors want to know where his parents are and get it all ok and then they were separate from the families of the nozzle to on our own. Our local as a trial no no. No. Thought of on the job not of the of the ok. The second boy has a bullet wound in the face but hes alive so i thought well. I think its him and oh. The doctors dont know. The boys have any family left the unit will make lighted on their own accompanied or their parents are dead according to the boy so for us that means we dont just treat their warrens we have to inform the un that we have unaccompanied minors here. Because the un has a special protocol for this situation. Which and i dont mean for global war. The boys will probably end up in a un refugee camp for the time being one that will cut to set up a t. S. P. In the old town of mosul where the iraqi army met resistance from the remaining pockets of is. Fighters many of the civilians brought here had been used as human shields anyone who tried to escape was shot. But if you really need to call. Forestry we have two people whove been shot trying to escape and their words were so bad that they died but most of the civilians are just of the limits of their human insurance theyve been besieged for months some of them of the families of violence fighters wives children who havent had anything proper to eat for weeks with their day hydrated its forty five degrees in the shade here during the day theyre wearing head jobs dressed in black in that heat and theyre totally hydrated and i have circulation problems to focus with focus on this for. Cutters has been working in mosul for nearly two months to good effect theyve saved many lives. And thats all seals but also the bill theres no Emergency Service here with trying to paramedics that means theres no proper treatment available until someone reaches the hospital and many of them have been bombed here in the city so it can take a long time to get to a hospital that got if so theres no doubt without the forty s. Piece here in the us and three other organizations hundreds more would have died. Had this awful not to hold them back here. Guns have been silent in mosul for months now but ninety percent of the city is in ruins. The w h os latest mission for cutters is behind the front line up. In contrast to mosul there are no badly wounded people in the rural region of how we judge. So conduced turned its attention to the villagers who received little or no care otherwise. The crew has a few toys for the children who are brought here. These children havent seen a doctor for more than three years time and again they had to flee the fighting with their parents many have been traumatized by the ongoing violence and constant fear. For their life as it heads is that this is so we honest i have the impression that the children are confused understandably. I think it will take a while for them to realize whats going on. Over. There that challenges now for example probably didnt really know what to do with the toys and thats perfectly normal in a second sounds as at least the parents i had. Thought of last year. For security reasons there are always soldiers in the surgery to look for the hygiene in a village is problematic this man has a skin rash and is itching all over. Does he have sold to wash oh so to wash would lock up all the little because theyre all at the station to give you that a particular where he has paid it so beaching is because of the water if you did it yeah you get something but it needs still its. A good quarter of a haul it just wanted it there i love it were looking at it. That i can do it with it sir. Its good water that. Suddenly a young man is brought in needing urgent help. To secure a shelter that. He has a gaping head wound and has already lost a lot of blood clearly solicitous reality. Allegedly he jumped in a river were not told why he wont say anything himself. Or i can just use one syringe for it and then give it back to you just as it is already set out the circumstances of the young mans injuries remain unclear what we do know is that he was brought in by iraqi soldiers it would not be the first time that iraqi troops have maltreated a civilian. Oil fall of any team of garridos or for the iraqi army and you know maybe this date because he stole his day but if you think maybe theyre going to be safe. Why is nobody knows who will take over when conduce leads the troops are being withdrawn and the crew has to go with them or theyd have no protection. It up it was it you could leaving in five minutes after that the army will be gone even just famous with this was in. The volunteers worked for almost six hours here without a break theres no telling how many patients they treated altogether. They kept it like that so that if you are strapped we but some might say i have no idea how many patients we treat it could have easily been one hundred i thought it was going to help they get it right why dont we work for hours with no break barely any food or water lots of pace of. The volunteers came expecting to treat trauma patients but the people treated today really need long term medical care theres no hope of that without a local doctor. If you have a Strong Service so this was difficult i think for the guys that were here to. Because they came expecting to do trauma work and its primary care that weve been doing its not very sexy it is very necessary for the General Health of the population so. I dont blame them their own young they all gravitated to the you know the sexy thing but the thing is were here seeing the press and people have we have to see. Some of. This mission is scheduled to continue for about two weeks then the w. H. O. Will decide where Congress Goes next but theres no shortage of places that need. The fast pace of life in the digital. Shift thats the lowdown on the web showing new developments and providing useful information the way to use fines and interviews with the makers and users. Should next deal. Shift living in the digital age this time with popular internet means. Pats on phones. And fluid space time continuum but first passwords