Against her family's wishes, Amani Ballour began studying to be a pediatrician right as the war broke out. A year later, in 2013, her city Al Ghouta was under siege. 'They bombed the hospitals a lot.'
President Bashar al Assad has waged war against his own people since 2011, aided by Russia's military. The scale of terror and loss of life has been enormous; by some estimates, nearly 500,000 people have lost their lives and 6.6 million have been displaced.
"I know I can do something different," she told ABC News Chief Global Affairs anchor Martha Raddatz."I have these ideas very early, I know I can." "I started in the Cave hospital when it was at the beginning. It was about two or three rooms. We have a surgery room. It was very small," she said."They bombed the hospitals a lot," she said.
"I've been tortured," he said, adding that his torturers took his fingernails."They use a brutal way of torture. I don't know how I survived." Fayyad and his team's footage became"The Cave," a film in conjunction with National Geographic Documentary Films, which flew"Nightline" out to meet Ballour for a sit-down interview. The Walt Disney Co. is the parent company of National Geographic and ABC News.
She said it was important to her that little girls in Syria see what a woman could do. Another important moment captured in the film is when Ballour reprimands boys who came into the hospital with their sister. "When you are a human, just a human, not male or female, you are human. You have rights," she said."You can do something. But when someone prevents you, you feel angry … and you have… something inside you to push you to change this."
"I saw a man. … He has very small baby. He took his baby and … came to me. He said, 'Please help my baby.' He waited a long time to get this baby and his child was dead," Ballour said. Ballour managed to escape Syria. She was granted refugee status in Gaziantep, Turkey, where she currently lives. She also got married.
"Well, there's a lot of nervousness at the moment," Mark Cutts, the United Nations' deputy regional humanitarian coordinator for the Syria crisis, told"Nightline.""Everybody is so concerned about their future. There's so much uncertainty and anxiety and fear. And unfortunately, so many people are just living in fear, driven by fear."
Human rights groups told ABC News that the Turkish government has been quietly planning to send refugees back to Syria in designated safe zones. Refugees in Turkey are already restricted to certain areas of the country and are required to carry special identification.
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