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A Merseyside plastic surgeon has spoken of the horrors of the war in Syria after helping to treat bombing and shooting victims.

Ali Juma, 53, who works at the Spire Murrayfield Hospital in Wirral , described how he treated patients left injured by shrapnel and even a baby boy who was badly scalded in an accident at a refugee camp.

A LEADING plastic surgeon from Wirral is heading to Jordan on a mission to treat wounded Syrian refugees whose lives have been torn apart by the civil war engulfing the country.

Dr Ali Juma will travel to Jordan in January to help with an international humanitarian effort by offering his medical skills in the capital, Amman.

The eight-day mission, organised by worldwide charity LEAP Global Missions, will see Dr Juma and a cohort of international plastic surgeons perform round-the-clock reconstructive surgery on children and adults who have suffered devastating war wounds including electrical burns, and traumatic injuries caused by gunshots

Cosmetic surgery is a subspecialty of plastic surgery and often the words are used interchangeably as is in this article.

Each year plastic and reconstructive surgeons improve the lives of millions of patients across the globe for many indications and reasons; however, the ultimate outcome is to provide a better cosmetic look to a disfigured body or face.

Motivations for having cosmetic surgery can be divided into external influences like indirect coercion by a spouse, media, and celebrity influence. However, the internal motivations are also multitude and may include the wish to alter a specific disliked feature; in addition to