A photo taken of Vivian for Doctors Without Borders.

The cave, which previously housed apples and olives, where Vivian and her surgical colleagues worked until a lack of space and an increase in medical activities required a move to a larger, permanent structure, which used to be a chicken farm.

For more on the difficulties of providing surgical care in a war-torn Syria, visit: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...