Shot in the hip, doctor sewed herself up then helped save others

By Julie Power
Updated August 19 2017 - 6:03pm, first published 5:58pm
Portrait of Dr Jemilah Mahmood, Under Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), photographed in Sydney. Thursday 17th August 2017. Photograph by James Brickwood. SMH NEWS 170817
Portrait of Dr Jemilah Mahmood, Under Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), photographed in Sydney. Thursday 17th August 2017. Photograph by James Brickwood. SMH NEWS 170817
Portrait of Dr Jemilah Mahmood, Under Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), photographed in Sydney. Thursday 17th August 2017. Photograph by James Brickwood. SMH NEWS 170817
Portrait of Dr Jemilah Mahmood, Under Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), photographed in Sydney. Thursday 17th August 2017. Photograph by James Brickwood. SMH NEWS 170817

It took a thick Reader's Digest book to finally slow the bullet that would have taken Dr Jemilah Mahmood's life in 2003 when a convoy carrying medical supplies to children's hospitals in Iraq came under fire. Two people were killed, and two doctors were severely injured in the attack on the ambulances clearly marked with the white flags of humanitarians.

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