A doctor from Clínica Universidad de Navarra provides financial aid humanitarian assistance in Indonesia.
Alberto Lafuente, a volunteer with DYA Navarra, attended to the victims of the earthquake of September 30, 2009, which claimed the lives of 3,000 people and caused some 4,000 missing persons.
Alberto Lafuente, a physician specializing in anesthesiology and resuscitation in the Clínica Universidad de NavarraLafuente has provided human and material support to the victims of the September 30 earthquake in Indonesia, which claimed the lives of 3,000 people and caused some 4,000 missing. The doctor also went with DYA Navarra to the earthquakes in Pakistan in 2005 and Indonesia in 2006.
Mobilized by the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation for the development (AECID), the team of graduate of the School of Medicine has spent eleven days in the Asian country. Specifically, it has been working since October 6 about 40 kilometers from Padang, one of the most affected areas, in a field hospital open 24 hours a day and in villages razed to the ground in the jungle.
"For them, death is part of nature, and they are strong enough to make it through. Their most precious asset is not life, but to be happy in life," says Alberto Lafuente, who received support from his department in the Clínica Universidad de Navarra to be able to go.