“There’s no right choice,” said the doctor in Douma, the last remaining pocket of rebel-held Eastern Ghouta. “There is danger with staying and danger with leaving.”
Dr Bushra had spent the last 48 hours treating victims of Saturday’s chemical attack at a hospital in Douma, but now faced a difficult decision of her own.
The rebels that had controlled the Syrian town agreed on Sunday to a Russian-brokered evacuation deal and she is left to decide whether to stay and risk living under the government or leave on the buses heading for other opposition-held areas.
“I’m in a bad psychological state,” Bushra, who did not wish to give her full name for fear of reprisal, said via text message. “I’m collapsed…
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