Syrian doctors who'd been working in Germany are paying to go home, where they're doing free surgeries and helping rebuild Syria's shattered health system. Understaffed German hospitals worry they ...

Like many other Syrian doctors here in the U.S., I’m so looking forward to putting what I have learned here in the U.S. into action and helping the people of Syria.

Syrian doctors have established themselves in Germany, filling critical health-care gaps. But Assad’s fall and anti-migrant sentiment have some torn.

Rass moved to the United States in 1991 but still has relatives in Syria. Some had died away since his last visit, but Rass said it was amazing to reunite with others.

Chicago-area doctor returns to native Syria to revive war-torn nation's ailing health system Dr. Mufaddal Hamadeh is leading efforts to rebuild Syria’s devastated medical infrastructure, working ...

BERLIN (AP) — Thousands of Syrian doctors work in Germany, and the fall of Bashar Assad is raising concern over the potential consequences for the health sector if many of them were to return home.

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Rass agreed that the number of medical students and young doctors has increased in Syria since he was in school there, but the medical infrastructure and opportunities have remained stagnant.

An estimated 5,000 Syrian doctors work in hospitals alone. Health Minister Karl Lauterbach, who puts the total number of Syrian doctors at over 6,000, says they are “indispensable” to health care.