Surgeon and doctor-turned-refugee, Dr. Tewodros Tefera, fills a container with clean water to sanitize medical equipment, at the Sudanese Red Crescent clinic at the Hamdayet Transition Center near the Sudan-Ethiopia border, eastern Sudan, on March 22, 2021. With no running water or electricity, he and a handful of colleagues see well over 100 patients a day. AP
Dr. Tewodros Tefera
Surgeon and doctor-turned-refugee, Dr. Tewodros Tefera, cleans a wound and makes a cast for 31-year-old Tigrayan refugee Kalayu Hagos, who recently fled and was severely wounded in the conflict at home, inside the Sudanese Red Crescent clinic in Hamdayet, eastern Sudan, near the border with Ethiopia, on March 23, 2021. Tewodros is one of more than 60,000 people who have fled ethnic violence in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, crossing the border into a remote corner of Sudan. AP
Surgeon and doctor-turned-refugee, Dr. Tewodros Tefera and Tigrayan refugee midwife from Adwa, 26-year-old Elsa Tesfa Berhe, have coffee in front of the Sudanese Red Crescent clinic where he takes shelter and works, in Hamdayet, eastern Sudan, near the border with Ethiopia, on March 18, 2021. AP
Surgeon and doctor-turned-refugee, Dr. Tewodros Tefera, right, walks by as Sudanese Red Crescent clinic staff pray at the clinic in Hamdayet, eastern Sudan, near the border with Ethiopia, on March 22, 2021. His wife and small children remain in Ethiopia, and he doesn’t know when he’ll see them again. They don’t know how raw his experience has been, and he hesitates to tell them. Once well-off, he arrived in Sudan with only the clothes he wore — jogging pants and a polo shirt — and his wedding ring. AP
Surgeon and doctor-turned-refugee, Dr. Tewodros Tefera, background center, attends a weekly meeting with all non-governmental organization (NGO) representatives focusing on Tigrayan refugees, inside the Hamdayet Transition Center near the Sudan-Ethiopia border, eastern Sudan, on March 22, 2021. AP
A malaria test indicates a positive result for Tigrayan refugee Hareg, 23, from Mekelle, Ethiopia, administered by surgeon and doctor-turned-refugee, Dr. Tewodros Tefera, at the Sudanese Red Crescent clinic in Hamdayet, eastern Sudan, near the border with Ethiopia, on March 17, 2021. AP
Dr. Tewodros Tefera treats a patient at the Sudanese Red Crescent Clinic in Hamdayet, Sudan, on March 17, 2021. AP
Surgeon and doctor-turned-refugee, Dr. Tewodros Tefera, prepares to preform a medical checkup on an infant, inside the Sudanese Red Crescent clinic in Hamdayet, eastern Sudan, near the border with Ethiopia, on March 22, 2021. AP
Surgeon and doctor-turned-refugee, Dr. Tewodros Tefera, uses his mobile phone camera to document the welts on the back from a beating by Eritrean soldiers of Adhanom Gebrehanis, a 20-year-old Tigrayan refugee from Korarit village, at the Sudanese Red Crescent clinic shortly after his arrival in Hamdayet, eastern Sudan, near the border with Ethiopia, on March 17, 2021. “It is definitely genocide,” he says. “If someone is being attacked for their identity, if they’re threatened to be vanished because of their identity, there is no other explanation for this.” AP Photo
Surgeon and doctor-turned-refugee, Dr. Tewodros Tefera, performs an ultrasound scan on 5-month-pregnant Tigrayan refugee Rahwa Haile, inside the Sudanese Red Crescent clinic in Hamdayet, eastern Sudan, near the border with Ethiopia, on March 22, 2021. With no running water or electricity, he and a handful of colleagues see well over 100 patients a day. AP
Surgeon and doctor-turned-refugee, Dr. Tewodros Tefera, takes a cigarette break inside his shelter at the Sudanese Red Crescent clinic where he works, in Hamdayet, eastern Sudan, near the border with Ethiopia, on March 22, 2021. AP Photo
Surgeon and doctor-turned-refugee, Dr. Tewodros Tefera, performs surgery on a man's severely infected toe, inside the Sudanese Red Crescent clinic, in Hamdayet, eastern Sudan, near the border with Ethiopia, on March 22, 2021. AP Photo
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