As a retrofitted medical train pulled out of Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, carrying nine badly injured patients to a safer location last week, Canadian American physician Dr. Daniel Schnorr could finally exhale.
“After all the patients were on board, we were getting ready to leave and we did have an air raid … so the train was stuck for a little while,” said Schnorr, who led the first mission of its kind for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Borders.
“But then, eventually, the air raid was lifted, and the train started moving, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief