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“Hi Soran, It’s Dr Gino. How Are you?”
I was a child. I heard noises around me and opened my eyes. In front of me, a man was holding my hand. “Hi, I’m fine but I feel a lot of pain. What happened to my right leg, why is it gone?” “Unfortunately a mine exploded and shattered your leg. We had to amputate…
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BBC Last Word Celebrates Gino Strada
“He was absolutely dedicated to helping humanity. His whole life was dedicated to that one cause….He was somebody that believed in the end of war. He believed that, as a surgeon, he had to find the root cause of the problem for his patients, and the root cause of that problem was war – and…
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Gino Strada. 1948-2021: The New York Times Obituary
War surgeon, founder of EMERGENCY, and our driving force. His obituary in The New York Times today.
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We Love You Gino.
Our beloved Gino died this morning. He was the founder, surgeon, Executive Director, the soul of EMERGENCY. “Patients always come first.” A sense of justice, lucidity, rigour, vision: these were the things that were immediately apparent in Gino. And if you got to know him better, you could see that he knew how to dream,…