Wars and threats in countries like Syria force a huge wave of people to leave their homes. Especially the ones with chronical diseases have to struggle with a lack of medicine, which they hope to get in countries like Germany – not for just having a better life, but to get the essential medicine to survive.

Dr. Katarina Braune is a young doctor who studied medicine in Halle (Saale) and works at Charité university hospital in Berlin. She tells the story of a young boy and his parents from Syria that she took in at the refugees’ emergency unit. They both have something in common: They both live with type 1 diabetes. This is the story about the challenges the boy faced as a refugee, from diagnosis in Syria during war, to his arrival in Germany, up to his on-going challenge of managing his disease after settling for a new home country.


This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx