Doctors Coordinate of Damascus (sometimes called Damascus Doctors) is a network of health care workers that provides clandestine medical aid to injured civilians of the Syrian Civil War.
[2] In other cases, injured opposition members have been forcibly disconnected from medical equipment, including respirators.
[1] In the summer of 2011, the Doctors Coordinate constructed a clandestine field hospital to treat the growing number of wounded.
[2] One of the organization's founders, Dr. Ibrahim Othman, became one of the Syrian government's most wanted men for his work with the group.
[3] In 2011, the Czech NGO People in Need awarded the group its Homo Homini Award, recognizing "the outstanding courage and effort they demonstrate when they put their own lives at risk to help civilians who have been injured as a result of brutal repression by the current Syrian regime.