Unless the international community can fully engage in the recovery work to save vulnerable lives across Syria following the deadly earthquake disaster, a whole generation will be lost.

That’s the dire warning from the UN World Health Organization’s (WHO) Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, who says that the wholesale suffering of Syrians regardless of political affiliation, can no longer be tolerated.

UN News Arabic’s Reem Abaza, began by asking Dr. Ahmed Al Mandhari, who has just returned to Cairo from the Syrian city of Aleppo, to describe what he had seen.