UOSSM, a group founded by Syrian doctors in 2012 to provide free medical care, equipment and other aid to hospitals and clinics inside Syria.___EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part of an ongoing series of stories remembering people who have died of the coronavirus around the world.___Jasem is the reason Alissa, who is five years younger, became a doctor.The two grew up in a farming region.
Jasem's father was the first to break from the family's long history of wheat and cotton farming and go to college. He came back home to teach.His father instilled in Jasem the sense of duty to serve your community.
Jasem, too, returned after finishing medical school in Damascus, specializing in anesthesia.He and his wife, a gynecologist, had four children and.