Doctors in the Syrian city of Aleppo have rescued an unborn child who had received a shrapnel wound apparently in a missile attack by the Syrian forces.
A dramatic footage of the surgery was posted by the Aleppo City Medical Council on Facebook on Friday showing the doctors performing the pregnant women and her unborn child.
The video shows doctors performing a caesarean section on the woman to deliver the child.
A piece of shrapnel is pulled from the eyebrow of the child after she was resuscitated by the doctors with the hospital officials saying both the mother and child were alive and in good condition.
The exact date when the woman and her child were injured has not been ascertained but the Syrian forces have been blamed for the attack by the author of the post on Facebook, saying “the criminal regime, which is trying to stop life in the city of Aleppo.”
Divided between Syrian opposition fighters, the Syrian government and Kurdish forces, Aleppo is the largest city in Syria where fierce clashes among the government forces and rebels have taken place since the start of the brutal civil war.
The Syrian government has targeted rebel areas with air strikes and barrel bomb attacks, which have killed thousands of civilians.
At least 75 people were killed after the Syrian army carried out a an airstrike using barrel bombs on two different areas in Aleppo province in May.
