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Africa — Latin America — Asia and Pacific — Middle East

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

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Dr. Athos Gallino, member of the ICRC, accompanied by Dr. Rémi Russbach, chief medical officer of the ICRC, went on mission from 20 January to 3 February, first to Mozambique and then to Zimbabwe, Ethiopia and Sudan. As head of the “Special Fund for the Disabled”, created by the ICRC in 1983, — Dr. Gallino visited the centres for care of war amputees and paraplegics which have been set up in these countries by the ICRC with the support of local authorities and National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. The ICRC representatives went to Maputo (Mozambique), Bulawayo (Zimbabwe), Debre Zeit and Asmara (Ethiopia) and Kassala (Sudan).

Dr. Gallino and Dr. Russbach also visited the ICRC feeding centres in Axum and Mekele (Ethiopia).

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International Committee of the Red Cross
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International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 25 , Issue 245 , April 1985 , pp. 102 - 117
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Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1985

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1 See the International Review of the Red Cross, 01–02 1984 Google Scholar