GRAPHIC Video: Syrian Doctors Save Unborn Child After Mother Hit By Shrapnel

By Dustin Siggins Published on August 20, 2016

A pregnant mother who was hit by shrapnel and had two limbs broken in a Syrian bombing has doctors to thank for the survival of her child.

In a graphic video meant to highlight the plight of Syrians caught in the nation’s five-year civil war, Britain’s Channel 4 News videotaped doctors wheeling Mayissa into surgery. There, they conducted an emergency C-Section, bringing what appeared to be a dead child into the world.

Blood is everywhere, and the child’s skin is ghostly pale.

“Is his heart beating?” asks one doctor. “No, no, I’m sorry,” says another.

But after several minutes of doctors massaging the baby, pumping the child’s heart and putting air into his lungs, and otherwise trying to revive him, the newborn let out a cry. Doctors also saved his mother.

Channel 4’s short Facebook video has nearly 8.5 million views; a longer YouTube video that juxtaposes the fight to save Mayissa and her child with the larger Syrian war has more than 64,000 views. Both videos are quite graphic. 

The Syrian civil war, which has brought U.S. and Russian forces into the nation as well as ISIS, has killed at least 470,000 people according to one estimate from April, and forced millions to become refugees.

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