Life as an obstetrician in a war zonehealthmedicinetAugust 22, 2016news In Aleppo, Syria, Doctor Farida – an obstetrician and gynaecologist – faces a daily battle to deliver babies amid war. In a video diary for the BBC, she performs an emergency caesarean section, partly during one of the city’s many power blackouts. Related posts: HMN 2025: How War-zone hospital patients is found to carry multidrug-resistant bacteria HMN 2025: How Brains listen best in the ‘Goldilocks echo zone,’ Previous Post Gord Downie brain cancer fund raises $265K, still growing Next Post Teenage girls: Mental well-being ‘worsening’