Reference :
V-P-SS-E-01168
Date :
22/05/2017
Caption :
Maiwut. Slobodan, an ICRC surgeon, says that running and practicing meditation helps him when he has to work around the clock in the operating theatre with little respite.
Confidentiality level :
public
Publication restrictions :
publication without restrictions
Description :
ICRC website, photo gallery Life as a war surgeon in South Sudan: “We are doing something big here”, 7 November 2017
“We often receive a dozen patients from the front line in a single day. In these situations, I don't think of who they are or what they might have done. I just try to work fast and repair the damage. I do not judge them – I am first and foremost a doctor.
Back home, I can spend a long time treating just one cancer patient, for example. There I perform about 30 surgeries a month. But here in South Sudan, we sometimes do 30 surgeries in just two days. […]
One of the best parts of what I do is people that I work with. Everybody is 100% dedicated. Sometimes we don't even have to speak to understand each other. We help many people who have no other choice than to survive. It feels like we are doing something big here.”
Original material :
digital
Resolution :
5760x3840
Orientation :
landscape
Colour/B&W :
colour
