In an article entitled "More than 250,000 in Eastern Aleppo could die after the next 20 days" and published on November 17, 2016, Raed Saleh, the head of the organization White Helmets, the Syrian Civil Defense, Dr. Ahmad Tarakji, the president of SAMS and Laila Soudi, who works with SAMS and the psychiatry department at the Stanford University School of Medicine, wrote that: