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“It is reasonable to imagine that the new NATO camps and hospitals, built in Romania, Bulgaria and Greece, will be used for the treatment of the wounded and for the reception of a new wave of refugees, whose origin, day after day, always seems to be clearer: a new war, this time in Europe, which will involve unarmed citizens and could give way to a long period of instability in the entire Old Continent “is what he stated, a few days before the Russian advance in UkraineStefano (invented name we choose to use to protect your safety), war doctor with a long experience of missions in Africa and Kosovo.
Today, it sounds a bit like a prediction, but it is evident that, in the field hospital set up on the border of Romania, where he arrived with a team of fellow doctors and nurses, the smell of war was more and more prevalent.
“We were here to ensure the start-up of the new field hospital and to train local medical and health personnel when we were contacted for a blitzkrieg to Ukraine»Says the war doctor, who landed from Bucharest on the southern borders of the country hit by Russian bombings, near the Black Sea.
“We were transported, in great haste, with armored ambulances», He explains,« to recover some of the injured to whom we have been treated. We stayed about 48 hours, I do not hide the fact that we ran a serious danger, also because we would not have been able to enter the Ukrainian territory ».
Long lines of tanks, books scattered by the fury of the explosions, houses collapsed and half burned, schools and universities destroyed, hospitals that have become targets, young conscripts, charred, with their rations still in their hands: this is the devastating scenario still imprinted in Stefano’s eyes.
“It is absolutely not the first war scenario I find myself in front of, I have many other missions on my shoulders, but you never get used to suffering. Now the heart of Europe has been struck and we all feel more involved, but unfortunately there are many other conflicts active in the world, in even more dramatic contexts, such as in Africa, where instead of getting packages with basic necessities, there are it’s just garbage to eat »he continues, with the bitterness of an unreasonable war, which nevertheless never scratches his tone of voice.
It is precisely calmness, in addition to professionalism and courage, that guides Stefano among soldiers and civilians with gunshot wounds, due to metal splinters and fragments: “we operate in emergency conditions, with the minimum necessary, in bunkers surrounded by gabions of two meters of sand. If there is an attack in progress, we make the first approach here and, only when the situation calms down, we take the patient to the operating room ».
Stefano, like so many other war doctors, represents the humanity of the treatments that go hand in hand with hospitality in a context in which, as he himself says, the human being is no longer human.
“When we got there, the place was relatively safe, although there is always a risk of a mortar round or missile coming to the head. I am aware of it, but the desire to help and make my skills available prevails over that feeling of silent fear that accompanies me “says the war doctor who, in addition to the surgical approach, also focuses on the wounds of the soul , even deeper.
Stefano, in fact, has a passion for poetry: for years he has been writing his «war diary», In which he translates every aspect of life in the trenches into verse.
“There poetry it is the arnica that relieves our sense of helplessness. Precisely every face I meet and every emotion I feel on war territories so that not only private sensations remain but can also share and transmit them to people who have no idea what really happens “she adds.
Poetry and surgery are indissoluble for the war doctor who, soon, will return to Italy to fill up with energy and then leave again because, as he reiterates, it is important to go all the way and try to suture the soul too.
To the question “what do you bring with you from this mission?” does not hold back the regret in seeing more and more countries which, in recent weeks, are starting to arm themselves again.
“I undeniably carry with me the gaze of the people we have cured. But also, unfortunately, the absurdity of a conflict that has broken out to support reasons that are not reasons. This war, which I hope an agreement can end as soon as possible, is also devastating from the point of view of security: everyone is now ready to fill their arsenals with weapons to attack “he concludes, declaring himself a convinced advocate of peace, essential for living as beings human beings as well as to protect the population which, at the moment in Ukraine, in the most unfortunate cases is deprived of life or in any case of dignity and everyday life which, according to Stefano, will take at least twenty years to be rebuilt.
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