Orthopaedists On A Humanitarian Mission: Sustained Help For Developing Countries
“Flying into a developing country, operating on people for a few days or weeks and flying out again helps individual persons but has nothing to do with sustainable development work.” Professor Martin Salzer, Vice-president of “Austrian Doctors for Disabled” — the Austrian society for medical development assistance — is convinced that “it makes even less sense to fly in people from such countries for difficult operations, as humanitarian the motive may be.
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Filed under: Bones on June 5th, 2009
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