Rome: Gino Strada, an Italian surgeon who founded an emergency humanitarian group to provide medical care for civil war victims and poverty in many countries, and is a fierce critic of the US-led invasion to Afghanistan, has died.
He is 73 years old.
His daughter, Cecilia Strada, tweeted: “My friend (hash) Ginostrada no longer.” Emergency announced Friday that “our favorite gino died this morning.
He is the founder, surgeon, executive director, emergency soul.
“NOT quoted the cause of death, but the Corriere della Sera website said Strada had suffered heart problems for years, and died in France.
Stand out between emergency medical missions in 19 countries is Afghanistan.
Right on the day of his death, Italian newspaper La Stampa has published an article by Strada considering the Taliban military military takeover from the main cities in the country in the past few days.
Strada wrote that blitz “should not surprise anyone who has discrete knowledge of Afghanistan or at least a good memory.” “It seems that both are less – or better, both of them are always lacking,” Strada wrote in a piece of opinion La Stampa.
“The war against Afghan has – no more, no less – war aggression, launched after September 11 attacks, by the United States, where all Western countries marked.
” Strada wrote it in seven years in it Afghanistan,” I see the amount injured And violence increases, while the country has devoured by insecurity and corruption.
“Referring to his anti-war attitude, Strada wrote:” We said 20 years ago that this war would be a disaster for everyone.
At present the results of the aggression are before our eyes: failure of every point of view.
“Born on the outskirts of Milan Sesto San Giovanni on April 21, 1948, Strada obtained a medical and surgical degree at the city state university and specializes in emergency room operations.
He was transferred to the United States where for four years he worked on heart and lung operations in Stanford and Pittsburgh University medical centers, emergency said.
He also practiced at Grote Schuur Hospital in Capetown, South Africa.
He decided to use his skills to help help civilians hurt in the war.
Starting in 1988, he worked with the International Red Cross in Pakistan, Ethiopia, Thailand, Afghanistan, Peru, Djibouti, Somalia and Bosnia.
In 1994, along with his wife, Teresa Sarti, and several friends and colleagues, he founded an emergency.
The organization began his first mission in Rwanda, was damaged by the Genocidal War, and continued to establish projects in 18 other countries.
Among them is Cambodia, where strada remains for several years.
His daughter, Cecilia, is currently managing communication with a rescal deed of people who save people, who operate migrant rescue vessels in the Mediterranean Sea.
Helping people and saving lives “is what he and my mother taught me, ‘.” “He refers to the Italian constitution written and adopted after the country’s destruction in World War II.
The surgeon, said Mattarella, begged” humanity where conflict canceled All respect for people.
“Italy pulled his troops from Afghanistan in June, after the announcement by Washington, the US military mission ended there this year.