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Nella Sinistra Italiana Nessuno Ha Mai Capito Gino Strada Quotidiano Data 14-08-2021 Domani Pagina 2 Foglio 1 / 2 1948-2021 Nella sinistra italiana nessuno ha guai capito Gino Strada È stato un cardiochirurgo dalla mano d'oro, ma non amante della medicina capitalista. Un isolato e un solitario Una sera raccontò che l'ambasciata gli segnalò due(finti)giornalisti che poi uccisero il comandante Massoud ma di pappagalli verdi, così che me il terrorismo islamico: erano conteneva la bomba che lo ucci- disseminate nei campi,che so,in i primi vent'anni del xxI secolo, se.Just in time.In quelle ore Moha- ENRICO DEAGLIO Afghanistan, dei bambini le rac- ricordate? Il grande nemico med Atta e i suoi stavano prepa- scrittore coglievano e saltavano in aria. Ai dell'umanità era il terrorismo randosi per il check in sui voli tempi quelle mine le fabbricava- islamico che divorava paesi e at- American Airlines per l'apocalis- no gli italiani—la Fiat,in partico- taccava l'occidente. L'idea che ci se dell'U settembre. lare,l'Afghanistan era stato inva- fossero degli ospedali in zone di Quella sera,dopo ce- so dai sovietici in nome della guerra in cui chiunque potesse Curare tutti na,a casa di Beppe e "democrazia socialista", natural- chiedere aiuto ed essere curato Mi ricordo Gino Strada come tan- Luma Cremagnani, mente—promettendo che le don- gratis —era considerato un tradi- te cose insieme.Un milanese,an- che erano stati tra i ne non avrebbero portato più il mento.Eppure Gino Strada lo fa- zi di Sesto San Giovanni,che è for- primi sostenitori di burqa. A quei tempi lady Diana, ceva. Perché? se diverso.Un cattolico impegna- Emergency, Gino un po' per sfuggire alla noia co- Quella sera,a cena,Gino Strada la- to, uno studente di Medicina se- Strada si lasciò un po' andare. niugale,un po' perché era davve- sciò cadere un aneddoto.Raccon- guace di Mario Capanna e del suo Spiegò per esempio che le qua- ro una brava ragazza, andava in tò che all'inizio di settembre del marxismo leninismo veloce; un ranta sigarette che fumava al giro ad accarezzare mutilati e a 2001, Emergency aveva aperto giovane cardiochirurgo dalla ma- giorno stringevano sì le corona- gridare che tutto ciò era uno già diversi ospedali in Afghani- no d'oro, specializzatosi a Stan- rie, ma se uno ci beveva sopra scandalo. A quei tempi, gli Stati stan e che lui stesso era una spe- ford,a Pittsburgh,ma non aman- due bicchieri di scotch,si allarga- Uniti finanziavano un certo cie di punto di riferimento per te della medicina capitalista. Un vano di nuovo,e quindi il suo la- sceicco saudita, Osama bin La- l'ambasciata italiana e per i gior- vero seguace del giuramento di voro in sala operatoria non ne pa- den, che combatteva contro nalisti che si spingevano lassù. Ippocrate, un vero apostolo. Un tiva. Raccontò dove sbagliava la l'Urss. Tempi strani, davvero. (Erano altri tempi,all'epoca c'era- isolato,un solitario,un ostinato. medicina di guerra americana: Beh, Maurizio Costanzo, ebbe la no giornalisti che andavano in Considerava l'America simbolo avevano la smania di operare i fe- brillante idea di chiedere loro:co- luoghi strani,e giornali che li pa- delle guerre imperialiste e si con- riti di guerra troppo presto, sen- sa possiamo fare per aiutarvi? E gavano, addirittura!). E dunque, siderava un testimone di za toelette antibiotica, e quindi loro dissero: dateci dei soldi su Gino Strada un giorno si trovò a quell'obbrobrio. Nella sinistra se li vedevano morire di sepsi. Gli questo conto corrente. E la regìa una cena all'ambasciata italiana italiana nessuno l'ha mai vera- ospedali di Emergency avevano fece passare, per parecchio tem- di Kabul e si parlava dell'uomo mente amato.La Cia lo sopporta- adottato il metodo esattamente po,il numero.Il giorno dopo i co- del momento, la speranza del va a malapena.Ai tempi in cui Ed- contrario:triage, toeletta antibio- niugi Strada scoprirono che il po- paese che dopo il tragico ritiro so- ward Luttwak era ospite d'onore tica dolorissima, ma necessa- polo italiano era buono e si fida- vietico, poteva essere in grado di delle nostre serate televisive Stra- ria e solo infine l'intervento. E va di loro, tanto da dargli un po' contrastare l'avanzata islamista da era il nemico numero uno ed le loro statistiche erano migliori dei loro risparmi. proveniente dal Pakistan: il co- era indicato come l'amico dei ter- di quelle americane. mandante Massoud, il leone dal roristi. Il Pd lo ha sempre tenuto A quel tempo Gino Strada aveva La nascita di Emergency Panshir, su al nord, un signore a distanza,la nostra destra lo ac- fatto esperienza in mezzo mon- Così era nata Emergency, la più della guerra amico dell'occiden- cusava di pacifismo e buonismo: do colpito dalle guerre, prima importante start up italiana. Ri- te,colto, elegante, raffinato, ama- "I pacifisti alla Gino Strada". Stra- con la Croce rossa, e poi con pensandoci,non c'è nulla di para- to dal suo popolo:le librerie di Pa- da considerava immorale che l'I- quell'organizzazione "privata" gonabile a quell'esperienza, né rigi esponevano la sua biografia. talia fabbricasse armi e che le che, con la moglie Teresa, aveva nell'industria, né nel commer- Gino Strada,come molti altri,ave- vendesse. Parlava poco, ma non prima vagheggiato, poi visto cre- cio, né della politica. Emergency va ottimi rapporti con lui. nascondeva certo le sue idee: so- scere. La storia è nota:i due anda- ha assunto centinaia di medici e «Lei torna al nord, dottor Stra- no i fascisti che fanno le guerre,è rono al Maurizio Costanzo show infermieri, ha aperto decine di da?», chiese il funzionario il mondo che le soffre. e raccontarono che volevano far ospedali in zone di guerra,ha cu- dell'ambasciata. «Mi stavo chie- In tutti gli ospedali che ha fonda- crescere un'organizzazione divo- rato—gratis —decine di migliaia dendo se potevamo approfittare to c'era un cartello: «Non si entra lontari medici e infermieri per di feriti di guerra e il suo fondato- di lei... Ci sono qui due giornalisti con armi». Curavano tutti. Ci fu curare gratuitamente le vittime re è stato invocato più volte co- francesi che vogliono intervista- un caso,il rapimento del giorna- delle guerre.Lui raccontò,perché me il salvatore di cui avrebbe bi- re Massoud... magari lei li può ac- lista Daniele Mastrogiacomo, in aveva ormai abbastanza espe- sogno l'Italia. L'altro ieri,i Cinque compagnare ed accreditare...». cui il suo ospedale in Afghani- rienza, che cosa succede in una stelle lo volevano presidente del- Gino Strada, quella sera, non ci stan andò drammaticamente di battaglia,in un bombardamento la Repubblica; ieri il governo gli disse se non acconsentì a quelfa- mezzo. Ci furono molti altri casi, aereo, in un attentato. Come si aveva chiesto di mettere, per fa- vore per presentimento, per so- di cui non sappiamo ancora, in vore, mano alla sanità in Cala- spetto, o forse solo perché aveva squarcia la carne,come si muore, cui Gino Strada salvò vite. Co- 045688 cosa resta dei mutilati: lo stigma bria. Più volte, negli ultimi una macchina piccola. Ma quei struì un ospedale in Sudan,sotto sociale, il rifiuto delle loro fami- vent'anni, Gino Strada ed Emer- due (finti) giornalisti comunque la protezione di uno dei peggiori glie di aiutarli,l'abbandono. Rac- gency sono stati un nostro"mini- ce la fecero. 119 settembre 2001 il regimi della Terra, per operare contò il livello di nequizia di chi stero degli Esteri ombra", ma an- leone del Panshir si sedette di neonati affetti da patologie car- progettava le armi, e alcune, per che sono stati accusati di"intelli- fronte a una telecamera per dare diache: è oggi l'unico centro del esempio,le fabbricava sotto for- genza con il nemico", inteso co- un'intervista. E la telecamera genere, serve mezza Africa, con Ritaglio stampa ad uso esclusivo del destinatario, non riproducibile. Scenario politico Quotidiano Data 14-08-2021 Domani Pagina 2 Foglio 2 / 2 aerei che portano i bambini da di ospedali, che dovrebbero esse- da sia morto alla vigilia del ven- in una luce diversa. Una sorta di operare. re presi ad esempio da noi,specie tennale dell'U settembre,alla vi- viaggiatore bene intenzionato, Declinò l'offerta di aprire ospeda- dopo la pandemia. gilia della nuova entrata a Kabul un Marco Polo sessantottino, la li nei territori occupati da Israe- È stato anche molto odiato, per- dei talebani, che si immagina persona cui davvero molti italia- le, perché trovò i dirigenti palesti- ché ha fatto vedere che: si può fa- doppiamente spaventosa; il fat- ni hanno dato con piacere i loro nesi un po' troppo corrotti. Ha re. Ma, dispiace dirlo, il suo inse- to che quanto aveva da dire il me- soldi, un carismatico leader che reinventato la medicina d'urgen- gnamento—prima di tutto, prati- dico italiano sia stato sempre, ha convinto medici, infermieri, za, l'organizzazione sanitaria in co— non ha fatto breccia in nessu- pervicacemente considerato personale a lasciare i loro lavori luoghi di guerra, con la rete sul na istituzione politica italiana. una specie di folklore marginale; per seguirlo nell'avventura, il territorio dei piccoli ambulatori il fatto che ora gli americani dica- più grande sostenitore della sani- essenziali,la chirurgia di guerra e Il futuro no solo: «Vediamo di salvare gli tà pubblica e dei suoi principi. E la riabilitazione degli amputati, Gino Strada — la sua Emergency interpreti» o, peggio, «se vi serve una mano d'oro in sala operato- ha dato a semplici infermieri l'or- avrà un futuro? Nessuno può qualcosa mandateci una mail», ria.
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