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 it seems office all. Day work where others fear to tread right behind the front lines in villages that have just been liberated from the i. A. S. Air bill is the capital of the autonomy region of kurdistan in Northern Iraq the local head. Quarters of carters is in the district of un comma where a rented house serves as both office and accommodation. Final preparations for a mission are underway this rise with a ceiling 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 its. Divided so humans live a. Shade bellman is responsible for the mission in iraq the former event manager has been in Northern Iraq for months she coordinates covers his work in the war zone has. Its roots i move in you know when you have a baby or to sit down to get a get organized and start at the on done fronts without. High c. It is a surgeon in berlin hes taken two weeks leave for this mission the teen aims to set up right behind the front line in a couple of days. Sometimes hiking all the diagnostic equipment 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 send 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. Canadian heather down has often worked in crisis. I wanted to come and work in iraq because i 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 film. Pains and went as a relief worker with a nurse friend of mine and im the only gray here here but everybody else is very young twentys i guess but im a grandmother and im 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 to us the perimeter is fine its safe but go ahead there by the time we get there something about a change they might have retreated to the front line lot of murders. 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 face bollman also has to coordinate with the iraqi army for security reasons. The destination for cartoonists 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. Is about living in Straight Lines from legitimately have to cross a lot of checkpoints just as we have permits for all of them theyre all in our list things even but the problem is things can change overnight. And no all fifty days away some issues the most buttons and that can cause us to laze the system. If its a very good. Filming is strictly prohibited at the checkpoints. The convoy leaves and heading toward the. Earth. From there it heads south toward how we jumped 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. To it its he quipped with the bare minimum to treat the wounded this is where the cut to screw will work. Thats the fundamentals thought this surgery has five beds its going to. We basically use it to stabilize patients enough 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. A 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 most. Ahmed hassan he decides we are cutters can and cant go then i didnt almost now finish all the missions i live to the. Ok finish finished the bottle years until now i think they can you watch this until now nor have any information on your machine and your machine i think in the few next days beginning a new mission but you know no information on this mission. 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. Condos is based in berlin it was founded by Sebastian Unum on 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. Was a good for you i never really liked the way the missions were 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 aid context to this. Context with that socalled. Because qantas doesnt get any government funding all its staff are volunteers they want to save people from war and injustice in the world. Instance mentionable i think its important to help these people sort of happy to spend my time here. Because i have no medical or Technical Training and it was so i do what i can to make my contribution much just as your tongue in my head its about supply. Theres been one particular language i found my way environ voluntary internship and i can identify with it values of count of the 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 in the missions he has to raise money otherwise could not exist. So i live. 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 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 and that we can carry out more projects just female which we have to do for. Twice a week you know man 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. Will know that it is a just cause when you found an organization like this you dont have enough money in the stocks especially 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 a mission accommodate that then that that is you know just about and im grateful. To so also for you some of the building. You know man lives his life between the nightclub and the war zone. Its day three after the volunteers arrival in hawaii john. Its time to get to work surgeon much is up at the crack of dawn getting ready for the crews mission in a village that was liberated just a couple of days ago. Here for the fight. I just saw today going to little minutes where the people probably havent seen a doctor in three is. Enough this is not. Just the three of us until very recently it was all i. Territory thats now been liberated. You. Will see how the civilian population is doing it and try to help where they can no many a focus on trauma patients but in this case they are natural the patients just advise her to come up with. The people who really it is primary medical care 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. N. S. Dr heather dahl is expecting to encounter a range of every day illnesses i think probably see sending hydration children and adults and then well see chronic medical conditions maybe some wounds im going to do a small minor surgery procedure on a patient female thanks so we drive all the medications that we have for primary care as well as our emergency packs for and 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 congress to help although thats not what it was set up for according to the bahman tears this is kind of all of them we can offer a Long Term Care here thats for the iraqi state to do list for what we can do here is just a drop in the ocean were not in a position to organize anything long term it was all it is it doesnt go. This streets are badly damaged from the fighting. One of the iraqi ambulances runs into trouble one of its bumpers has come loose. But it shopping is always risky there are improvised explosive devices almost everywhere. On the way into the village the volunteers encountered 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 to pull me mad im sure some people to the thai still feel quite safe enough sanity cannot and we havent had to put on a flak jackets and there havent been any Critical Situations everythings been calm side from. 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. We always have to be on the lookout for booby traps everywhere because. I was about as long as we stick to the very its we know have been used this before us a chippie ok if on board and a lot of the gun. In a society or. The cutters team has to hit the ground running because its not clear how long the army will stay here if the crew turns a former living room into a surgery. Because. This is a virus he said what. Lead to this is doing is organizing things by class of medications 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 into rows. One man brings his injured son saying he fell from a tree there is no telling how true that is. A full blown by the bomb we fell off ill probably while. 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 seems to only in his their essex mind here its possible because he landed on his feet i have a compression fracture this vertebrae at that level for theres nothing one minute that he first or out. Of the doctors also suspect concussion all they can give them is pain killers and medical advice tiger can you explain that with the head injury takes a while for the brain to get better. Because all the football for the country to kill does when theyre actually able to do a Holiday Travel trouble i still dont know if you. Get it right because organise your travel 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 us thats with us philippe says he 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 solicitor 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 world will be treated after. 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 that it will come back and this state office is going to struggle to survive like. This fourteen year old boy can hardly walk his knees are deformed theres little the doctors here can do i tell you really miss iran to tell him just what i especially i used to have that advancement it is very what it looks good to be a very lazy with this life especially as a liberal or a life daily because. After five hours lines of patients still arent getting any shorter the doctors and medics work without a break until theyre at their limits. For this unit its 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 if that we do try to take time for every patient thats. 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. You. Prefer to believe there are a fair bit of good thats up. In international jargon an emergency room like this is known as a t. S. P. His piece of almost seven is asian for. 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 wounded civilians all combatants regardless of what signed they belong to or. Where they just saved lives we want to stabilize the patient said if they can be transported to a proper hospital because law is guilty. And the surgeon chef on ya is looking after an injured boy. There you go and his need for that we dont know where theyre from is all of this its often like that here that civilians are brought in from somewhere and any old vehicle rather than an ambulance one thats very good i believe but then a quick look at this guy tells me that hes reasonably stable because i can his life is not in acute danger is limbs could fit. The boy his upper body covered with inadequately trained burns arrived with another injured boy three days ago. With a foot spider that were in the if a mortar rounds landed near him a couple of days ago and he sustained these wounds six will be. Ok. Children. You will take off the bandages they. Want shift in your old 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 family of the nozzle too on our local. Power. That no bargain bought into all of on the job not that they are. Going to. Kill the second boy has a bullet wound in the face but hes alive so i think you know what. I think its him and oh. The doctors dont know. The boys have any family left. In it only glided on their own accompanied or their parents are dead according to the boy as for us that means we dont just treat their wounds we have to inform the un that we have unaccompanied minors here. Because the un has a special protocol for this situation. Which in a by doing for. The boys will probably end up in a un refugee camp for the time being. Able 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 its a risk if youre caught up in oxford yesterday we had two people whod 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 but their day hydrated its forty five degrees in the shade here during the day theyre wearing head jobs theyre dressed in black in that heat and theyre totally hydrated and i have circulation problems difficulties but for cooking im going to see if. I cut those 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 a hospital and many of them have been momentary in the city so it can take a long time to get to a hospital that got there so theres no doubt without the forty s. Piece here and three other organizations hundreds more would have died. Had this awful not to hold them and you. 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 condos 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 traumatised by the ongoing violence and constant fear. For her life as it heads is that closer to be 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. For. That child just now for example probably didnt really know what to do with the toys and thats perfectly normal in a cycle stoutness at least the parents i had. Thought of. For security reasons there are always soldiers in the surgery to work for the hygiene in the village is problematic this man has a skin rash and is itching all over. As if still to wash off the water so to watch what i call a little because were all at the station given that a particular way he has paid. So beijing is because of the water if you get it yeah you get something but he needs still its. A good quarter of a well if you just wanted it there are a lot of will if you want it to do that i cant do it with your search. Its good water ice 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 listen to the latest of this reality. Allegedly he jumped in a river were not told why he wont say anything himself its not an excon just hes one syringe full and then give it back to you just out of thats 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 fall guy doesnt fall you know i caught it and you know maybe this day because i stole this day and much of anything was dying maybe in their twentys a thought oh my god 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. That up there was that you would be having in five minutes after that the army will be gone if you had just been this was this was it that the volunteers worked for almost six hours here without a break theres no telling how many patients they treated altogether. They kept at it like that so that if you have struck weve got some late today i have no idea how many patients we treat it could have easily been one hundred ill give it to the health that if you live by them harshly we work for hours with no break barely any food or water lots of patients. The volunteers came expecting to treat trauma patients that the people treated today really need long term medical care theres no hope of that without a local doctor. If as you saw in the case of the head trauma its a very. Blood blood and guts and things like that are saying and it is a Trauma Service and it had this Trauma Service so this was difficult i think for the guys that were here today 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 theyre all you know they all gravitated to the you know the sexy thing but the thing is were here seeing the rest of the people because 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 to be. The fast pace of life in the digital. 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