Injured boy Omran is a "very lucky child" - Aleppo doctor

[cilla4progress]

Source: BBC

The picture of five-year-old Omran Daqneesh sitting in shock in an ambulance following an air strike has been seen as an image of the suffering of Syrian civilians in the country's continuing civil war.

Dr Ossama Abu Alez, a general surgeon in Eastern Aleppo, gives his reaction to the images, telling the BBC why he thinks the boy is actually one of the more fortunate people in the city.


Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37135628

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"Very lucky"? What have we come to that a 5 year old boy who should be playing in the yard is sitting in shock and trauma in an ambulance wondering if he has been left alone in this cruel world...and considered "very lucky"?

What will it take to end this brutality?


Thank god he has been reunited with his parents, according to CNN.

[calimary]

1. I saw that, too. One small bright spot in an otherwise large and dismal picture.

At least he's still got his mom and dad. Far too many other five-year-olds are turned into orphans in this kind of real-life horror. And even sadder - the orphans are still considered luckier than other children who just flat-out got killed.

[cilla4progress]

2. I know...

war must end. I feel so powerless.

[alphafemale]

5. I don't know that orphans are luckier in places like that.

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There is no structure to protect and help them.

They may become beggars at best. They may be forced to be child soldiers or sexually brutalized at worst.

[calimary]

7. I probably should have used the word in quotes. So it would read "luckier."

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

3. Maybe Omran

will grow up and be the one to lead the world to peace...........I can only hope.

[cilla4progress]

4. Yes. That would be

excellent karma.

[Boudica the Lyoness]

6. I wonder why he was left sitting on that chair alone.

[MrsMatt]

9. Perhaps the medics

were attending to the other injured people.

[moondust]

8. Choices.