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After losing his leg, a Syrian war survivor turns to tech to 3D print prosthetic limbs


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Asem Tedx Berlin Asem Hasna, 22, heard dead silence for five minutes after a shell blew his left leg off in a small town southwest of Damascus in April 2013. A mathematics student turned volunteer paramedic Hasna had opened the ambulance door after loading injured rebels from the battlefront in Khan El Shih when Bashar Al Assad’s Syrian military forces had shelled the area. Read More
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