It was only by the merest chance that a visiting medic had been up on a balcony that day and recorded a fuzzy minute of the action on his mobile phone.
Where Progresa operates, more children have registered for school, more people are visiting their medics, and malnutrition is down.The scheme, however, will have to support many children for many years before anyone can be sure that it really improves their lives rather than just maintaining them.
The father, Sokhaa Vech, a local chief, recalled seeing the unlicensed medic visiting a neighbouring family before coming to his, and he noticed how the man handled his equipment.
When the tribesmen visiting Simpatia started coughing on 4 July, medics quickly diagnosed a respiratory infection and took them into quarantine for four days.
His father said that he knew nothing about such claims and refused to respond to claims that Fakhri was the first of the nine medics to visit Syria in 2014.
The soldiers visiting the wounded in the brigade hospital, a clean facility manned by a single medic, offered words of comfort to their comrades.
Believing that soldiers should not witness severe injury and death for the first time in battle, he arranged for officers to visit a morgue, and ordered medics in the unit to ride in ambulances.
Meanwhile, Buddy Shipp, 61, a former Marine medic from Somerville, Tex., visited the Americans over the weekend to check on their medical condition, returning later with insulin for one who is a diabetic.
I am not talking about bombing fighters, I am talking about bombing children and hospitals," said Sahloul, who has visited Aleppo several times as a volunteer medic over the past four years.
The mobile satellite Internet terminals could encourage more first-responders and medics to make the tough decision to visit West Africa to help fight Ebola, Facebook's Head of Spectrum Policy and Connectivity Planning Chris Weasler tells me.
