A World As One

• Lizzy Davies, “Maestro of humanity”: Italian surgeon Gino Strada dies at 73, The Guardian, August 13, 2021

“If you think of medicine as a human right, then you cannot have some hospitals that offer sophisticated, very effective, hi-tech medicine, and then go to Africa and think, ‘OK, here’s a couple of vaccinations and a few shots’”, he said. “Do we think that we human beings... are all equal in rights and dignity, or not? We say, ‘Yes, we are’”. [Read more].

Medical record

Dr. Gino Strada, Italian war surgeon and founder of the UN-recognised Italian NGO Emergency, in an interview to Jean Paul Bellotto and Massimo Giannini for Radio Capital, called Italian goverment “a gang formed by half fascists and half assholes”. The scientific value of his diagnosis is, of course, worth a great deal more than mere intellectual distancing from the repeated specific acts of fascist aggression occurred lately in Italy.

Gino Strada doing open heart surgery in Sudan with CBS crew. Photo courtesy of CBS.