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Strada, Gino

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Personal name headingStrada, Gino
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Variant(s)Strada, Luigi, 1948-2021
Associated placeMilan (Italy)
Birth date1948-04-21
Death date2021-08-13
Place of birthSesto San Giovanni (Italy)
Place of deathHonfleur (France)
Field of activityHumanitarian assistance Medical assistance War relief Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.
AffiliationEmergency (Organization)
Profession or occupationSurgeons Humanitarian aid workers
Found inStrada, Gino. Buskashì, 2002: t.p. (Gino Strada) p. 4 of cover (surgeon; one of the founders of Emergency, an Italian humanitarian association)
Gino Strada, 2009: p. 31 (b. Apr. 21, 1948 in Sesto San Giovanni, Italy)
Washington post WWW site, viewed August 27, 2021 (in obituary dated "yesterday": Gino Strada, an Italian surgeon who helped bring medical care to the most impoverished, war-riven corners of the globe, building hospitals and clinics from Rwanda to Afghanistan through a nonprofit organization that won international renown for its humanitarian work, died Aug. 13 in Honfleur, where he was vacationing in the French region of Normandy. He was 73. ... Emergency, the Milan-based NGO that Dr. Strada co-founded in 1994 ... specialist in heart and heart-lung transplants ... Luigi Strada was born outside Milan, in the town of Sesto San Giovanni, on April 21, 1948)
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