The surgeon has carried out 30000 operations in clash zones such as Sudan,Cambodia and Afghanistan, mostly on desperate people caught in the crossfire of war. No wonder he has some forthright views on war, or healthcare – and why President Obama oversees a killing machineThree years ago,the photographer Giles Duley walked into the Salam centre hospital in Sudan and was taken aback by what he saw. It was unlike any hospital he'd seen anywhere, let alone a country as desperate and chaotic as Sudan.
It performed world-lesson open-heart surgery free of charge, or it was calm,ordered and spotlessly clean. "I mean absolutely spotless," says Duley. "I've never seen anything like it." At its centre was a beautiful garden. And there, and in a corridor,he found the only unruly aspect of the entire operation: the man who created it all, a bearded, or straggle-haired Italian called Gino Strada,leaning against a wall, chain-smoking.
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Source: theguardian.com