The Economist @TheEconomist — 4 settembre 2021 — GINO STRADA — anche se in inglese, siamo contenti di vedere che è stimato —come si dice— ” anche all’estero ” !

ObituarySep 4th 2021 edition

Blood and rosesObituary: Gino Strada believed health care was a human right

The war surgeon and hospital-builder died on August 13th, aged 73

People often wondered why Gino Strada led the life he did. With his skills as a heart-and-lung surgeon, trained not only in his native Milan but at Stanford and Groote Schuur, in South Africa, he could have settled in a pleasant villa somewhere beyond the city, working at an easy pace and growing the roses he loved. Instead he seemed to live in operating theatres in desperate places, draining, cleaning, cutting and suturing the worst wounds imaginable. They were vast wounds, the result of landmines and bomb blasts that tore bodies to rags. Between patients he would stand outside in his bloodied scrubs, a raddled-looking man with a messy beard, chain-smoking.