The Hippocratic Oath hangs heavy over a makeshift hospital in the besieged city of Al Qusayr , centuries of ethical code now dangerous to honor in a place where a doctor saving the life of a gasping child is labeled a terrorist . Dr. Kasem is aware that every patient could be his last . He and his hospital have endured rocket attacks . But he will not stop . The medical oath he took demands that he do all that he can to save lives . Instead , he keeps moving his hospital from building to building so that Syrian government forces will not discover it . `` If I will die when I help people , it is good for me , '' he says . `` Because I am a doctor . I must help people , especially in this very catastrophic time . After the revolution , before the revolution , during the revolution , I will help people . '' Kasem works day in , day out . He and his staff rush to patch up bruised , bloodied and broken bodies . He hears motherless children howl and grown men belt out the kind of screams that can haunt for a lifetime . Kasem works away from the spotlight . He does nothing for glory . He does everything to stop death . His story has come to attention through Robert King , a journalist with Polaris Images , who wanted to document the critical work of Syria 's secret hospitals . `` Since late April , I have been photographing and filming inside the besieged city of Al Qusayr , '' King says . `` One of my main focuses here is to tell the story of the volunteer doctors and nurses who work tirelessly 24 hours a day inside the only working hospital in the area . '' King 's camera follows Kasem through the chaos . Streams of crimson stain sheets and mattresses . The freshly lie on the ground . Rivers of red cover the patterns on a tiled floor . Outside , the thundering booms of mortars and constant rattle of gunfire . Doctors desperately try a defibrillator on a man who is already turning ghostly white . Occasionally , someone says : Allahu Akbar . God is great . The field hospital serves a population of about 40,000 people , King says . The daily log books are brimming with names . It 's the only place for people in the area to seek help -- not just for war wounds but for simple everyday medical stuff like back pain and blood pressure . Occasionally the staff sees joy when they help deliver a baby . It 's the only working hospital around since the local state hospital has been taken over by the Syrian army . The soldiers turned the place of healing into one of killing , Kasem says . They used it as a military base from which to attack the city . Snipers take aim from the hospital 's rooftops . They have a perfect view from up high . Kasem 's hospital is well within territory held by the Free Syrian Army , resistance fighters who are mainly Syrian military defectors . Al-Assad considers them terrorists and as such , the field hospital , a terrorist haven . `` Look at this child , '' Kasem says . King 's camera pans over a boy with bandages over his body and tubes snaking out of his mouth . `` They see he is not a fighter , not an old man , not a young man . '' The child is 6 . He has severe injuries in his stomach , liver and kidney . Doctors operate on him using a table lamp for light . `` Why are they shooting him ? Kasem asks . `` This regime is a terrorist regime . '' He thinks the child will survive . God will help him . Several children , blood crusting on their skin , lie sideways on one gurney . A man bends to kiss a little girl on the forehead . Her lower torso is sliced open , exposing her organs . `` Doctor , what has happened here , '' King asks . `` I do n't know , '' Kasem replies . `` The army of Assad . You see this child ? They are a terrorist ? King 's camera captures a slice of Syria 's horror . Efforts to gain peace dimmed this week with opposition reports of another massacre and intensified government bombardment of several cities and towns . Despite the chilling images sent in by journalists and opposition activists , King says Syrians like Dr. Kasem believe the world has turned away . `` The world is a very complacent place right now , '' King says . `` The lack of curiosity , concern , for their fellow humans is appalling . There 's only one trained surgeon in the entire field hospital . He relies on his colleagues to learn fast on the job . Smugglers risk their lives to bring in medical supplies and surgical equipment , King says . But that might get harder -- Al Qusayr has been under seven long months of siege and one of the main supply routes from neighboring Lebanon is cut off . Despite the dwindling odds , King is convinced Dr. Kasem and his staff say they will go on performing medical miracles . King says Al-Assad failed to honor the Hippocratic Oath he likely took when he became a physician -- he is trained as an opthamologist . But Dr. Kasem is determined to stick to one of history 's oldest binding documents .
Journalist Robert King captures the chaos within a secret hospital in the village Qusayr . A doctor says he will keep the oath he took as a doctor to save lives -- despite the odds . The hospital is relocated from time to time to avoid detection . Doctors treat hundreds of patients , many of them children .