Syria: a humanitarian doctor testifies

The humanitarian doctor Raphaël Pitti.

JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VERHAEGEN / AFP

By: Eric Bataillon

1 min

Professor Raphaël Pitti has just returned from a humanitarian mission in Syria.

The 30th.

Since the start of the war in 2011, the Lorraine anesthesiologist has been training caregivers in emergency medicine in the various centers made available to him, and in particular the last one that he largely helped to set up on site in 2016. After 10 years of civil war, the humanitarian doctor testifies to the catastrophic situation of the local populations, and the state of disrepair not only of the health system, but also of the entire economy in the northern and northern regions. is where it comes in.

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