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Thirteen years' experience in fitting war amputees with artificial limbs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Alain Garachon
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From its very beginnings the ICRC has been concerned with the war disabled and has done what it can to help them. After the Second World War it was involved in orthopaedic activities in various countries, such as Finland, Viet Nam, Jordan, Hungary, Algeria, Morocco, Israel, Egypt, Nigeria, Somalia and Yemen.

Type
Special Health Protection and Medical Assistance in Disaster Situations
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 31 , Special Issue 284: Health Protection and Medical Assistance in Disaster Situations , October 1991 , pp. 491 - 493
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1991

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