In October, Luca, Coordinator of our regional cardiac surgery programme, and Maria, a long-standing cardiologist at EMERGENCY, were in Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, for the first heart-screening misson at the new clinic at Orotta Hospital
There’s one thing I’m sure of and that’s the pure, gentle love that exists between a father and son. Just for a moment, it gives you a glimpse of beauty amid the horror of this war.
"Let’s look forward”. That is what we tell our patients every day, encouraging them to take back the life that war has snatched away. We help them to do just that.
We ask Europe to act immediately to avoid another war and to categorically refuse any support for military operations.
We had decided to leave forever, but I became a paraplegic at 23 years of age. What will we do now?
Sometimes it's really tough, but we have no intention of stopping.
The clock had just struck two when the head of our mission came to tell me there was a dinghy drifting a few miles from the ship. Just a few hours before we had been told a dinghy had capsized,…
Meanwhile, a question will stay with us: if you lose your facial features, how do you remain yourself?
