PORTRAIT – Accustomed to war zones, she went to train sisters in disaster medicine with the NGO Doc4Ukraine.
For a week, Angeline put her daily life on hold. This mother of three flew to kyiv on June 12 to train nurses in disaster medicine.
Nothing very unusual for this 42-year-old woman, director of nursing care at the Monaco private hemodialysis center of the Elsan group of clinics. A Red Cross volunteer in the emergency unit, accustomed to war zones, she has already lent a hand in Pakistan, Chad and Haiti. Last spring, when she was completing a university degree in emergency medicine at the University Hospital of Nice, she testified about her experience on Linkedin. His posts caught the attention of the NGO Doc4Ukraine, which requested it. She accepts, after finding out about the level of danger in the area located in the west of the country.
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Angeline, who lives near Menton (Alpes-Maritimes), takes the bare minimum: a miniature overhead projector, tourniquets, an exsufflation needle (to remove air…
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