This is the story of a rescue expedition.
At the end of September, Doctor Levon Khachatryan, cardiac surgeon at the Georges Pompidou European Hospital, in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, discovers with horror that the fighting has resumed in Nagorno-Karabakh.
The end of a cease-fire in force since 1994. Very quickly, victims rain down on the front lines in this territory which has seceded from Azerbaijan.
These new fights have left at least 800 dead, including a hundred civilians, according to the latest partial reports.
"
I saw that there was a shortage of doctors on the spot and being a French doctor from Armenia, I said to myself that I could be efficient and useful there
", confides to
Figaro
the specialist, aged 46 years.
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With five of his friends, from all over France (Paris, Amiens, Bordeaux), he decides to start a group to go to Armenia.
The team is made up of five
“purely volunteer”
doctors
: Patrick Knipper, specialist in plastic surgery
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