Syrian doctors comfort wounded children with chocolate
Hana was wounded in shelling by Syrian government forces, who have been pounding Homs for more than 10 days. Activists say dozens have been killed and medical supplies are running out in the city, which is the centre of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.
"I was taken to a small room underground next to our house and the nice doctor gave me chocolate and told me 'it's going to hurt a little, but you eat the chocolate and you will be OK'," Hana said, pointing to her bandaged leg in a house in Beirut. "My daughter fainted in front of my eyes as the doctor was removing the shrapnel," al-Homsi told dpa.
"We left our house early in the morning and walked through alleys, until we reached some areas that we had to cross under shelling." "Then, we continued in a car to the borders with Lebanon," he said, adding that the trip was arranged by activists and members of the rebel Free Syrian Army. "I had to carry my daughter throughout the trip and I kept telling her that we will soon be safe so she would not cry while we were walking in the woods with the smugglers," he said.
The relative safety of Beirut has done little to comfort Hana, whose experience sometimes prevents her from sleeping at night. She says she dreams of an armed man taking her back to Homs.
http://www.timeslive.co.za/world/2012/02/14/syrian-doctors-comfort-wounded-children-with-chocolate
