dr majid spoke to our correspondent martin bashir.was the front line in treating the youngest victims and soon welcomed the queen, who offered support and comfort. hopefully it mends quickly. hope 50. the royal manchester children's hospital has won widespread praise for its response to the bomb attack, and leading the team of surgeons that night was dr ibrar majid, the head of trauma and orthopaedic surgery. what we saw was essentially war wounds. war wounds? yes, so the kind of wounds you would see on a battlefield. we were operating from probably about one o'clock in the morning all the way to just before eight o'clock. once they'd stabilised the children, then there was a pecking order of what needed to be done. so the life—saving surgery had to be done before the limb—saving surgery. and were there several children where there would be multiple surgeries? yes, and even to this day we're continuing to operate on some children, and some of these children will continue to need surgeries going into next week. had you lost any patient

dr majid spoke to our correspondent martin bashir.comed the queen, who offered support and comfort. hopefully it mends quickly. hope so. the royal manchester children's hospital has won widespread praise for its response to the bomb attack, and leading the team of surgeons that night was dr ibrar majid, the head of trauma and orthopaedic surgery. what we saw was essentially war wounds. war wounds? yes, so the kind of wounds you would see on a battlefield. we were operating from probably about 1:00 o'clock in the morning all the way to just before 8:00 o'clock. once they'd stabilised the children, then there was a pecking order of what needed to be done. so the life—saving surgery had to be done before the limb—saving surgery. and were there several children where there would be multiple surgeries? yes, and even to this day we're continuing to operate on some children, and some of these children will continue to need surgeries going into next week. had you lost any patient? fortunately, that night in theatre, we didn't lose any patient

the clinical challenge for dr majid was only compounded by the knowledge that the attacker claimed tocordant view of life. how do you feel about individuals who claim to be muslims and do this kind of thing? i can understand why people are angry — iam angry. i am angry that someone would do this, to children mainly, in our city. after eight hours of nonstop surgery, he finally went home to his family. what did you tell your wife when you got home? i couldn't really talk to her much at all, ijust explained to her that... i think the words are i used were, "it was horrific," and i said i needed to rest, and i just went upstairs. i slept for about two hours, i was woken by my son, he'd just come back from nursery, and i can remember giving him the biggest hug i've ever given him. having operated on children all night with life and limb—threatening injuries, i cherished any moment with him more than i ever have. a dark night for the medical community, but the darkness did not overcome them. martin bashir, bbc news, manchester. 0ne one other item of news, president trump has decided to del

dr ibrar majid, who works at royal manchester children's hospital,