Oak Lawn doctor a voice for victims in Syria

posted on: Apr 29, 2015

Dr. Zaher Sahloul has crossed the Syrian border nearly a dozen times to help treat victims shot, bombed, gassed and suffering from malnutrition in a war-ravaged country where the dictatorial government attacks its people and Islamic State terrorists murder innocent civilians.

He raises money to support doctors and nurses in Syria, heads an organization that raises funds to buy medical supplies for their clinics and hospitals as well as those in refugee camps and somehow still maintains his medical practice as a critical care practitioner in Oak Lawn.

As president of the Syrian-American Medical Society, Sahloul has been quoted in newspapers from Great Britain to India to Japan and has appeared on television news shows throughout the world.

Source: www.chicagotribune.com