Wrong that it didnt have to happen according to being available on the sea but people were going its just the pure need and if you take libya as of course one of the departing areas and maybe putting area in the Central Mediterranean sea you see that people they dont have any way to go elsewhere so they have to go through the sea and if you dont rescue them in these situations a lot of people have died but im sure you know that there are people crossing through a ban on just libyans and their knowledge just people fleeing from war persecution there 1200000000 of People Living in africa many of them in abject poverty and im sure not many of them where would be able to make that crossing but many. Would like to do that thing i mean its. I think its ultimately a question not about borders but about the limits do you think the humanitarian responsibility has to be balanced against other considerations economic social political and others i think we have to be very careful not to judge too
Practice medicine you are a general practitioner at a berlin hospital you teach humanitarian medicine and for the last i think 20 years youve been involved in various humanitarian actions around the world is it more difficult to be a humanitarian these days than it was when you just start it well its i think each decade has its own lets say complications so in this regard it was always a difficult undertaking because youre working in very lets say a Resource Limited settings youre working in very risky environments youre often coming as an expert but youre not really because you dont know when you arrive so in this regard it hasnt changed so much but what became more and more in issue is of course lets say problems related to conflicts where its not really very easy to understand who is behind what kind of action and that is of course ever growing concern for. Us the less we are getting respect for our lets say medical and humanitarian work now when Doctors Without Borders were set up
As it deals with migrants and refugees do you see that impacting your work in any way yeah it is of course i mean in general the no borders is to say we are we think that we should not lets say only go where we allow to go but we also should try to fight for access to the people because its where they meet they deserve its a human right also if you be taken care off and especially in conflict situations where there is no support when the Health Systems are failing then of course there is a lot of need and its own mission somehow to go and it was if used to be i think 20 years ago it used to be a very popular notion both among the public and among the Decision Makers especially in europe i mean europe was moving to. A World Without borders but clearly its not the case anymore. People in europe actually want to bring borders back in much greater matter than before well as a matter of fact we are we are seeing already we have a big border around europe no its not amongst the different ind
The departing areas and maybe planting area in the Central Mediterranean sea you see that people they dont have any way to go elsewhere so they have to go through the sea and if you dont rescue them in these situations a lot of people have died but im sure you know that there are people crossing through only bad ill just lay bands and then all just people fleeing from war persecution there 1200000000 of People Living in africa many of them in abject poverty and im sure not many of them where would be able to make that crossing but many. Would like to do that thing i mean its. I think its ultimately a question not about borders but about the limits do you think the humanitarian responsibility has to be balanced against other considerations economic social political and others i think we have to be very careful not to judge too much numbers because as a matter of fact if you take for instance now the situation we have a very limited of moment of people who are even trying to cross and if
Sea and if you dont rescue them in these situations a lot of people have died but im sure you know that there are people crossing through a ban on just libyans and their knowledge just people fleeing from war persecution there 1200000000 of People Living in africa many of them in abject poverty and im sure not many of them where would be able to make that crossing but many. I would like to do that thing i mean its. I think its ultimately a question of about borders but about the limits do you think the humanitarian responsibility has to be balanced against other considerations economic social political and others i think we have to be very careful not to judge too much numbers because as a matter of fact if you take for instance now the situation we have a very limited of moment of people who are even trying to cross and if you leave these people dying because of political reasons and theres no other reason to say it is just for political interests that people are drowning in the Medit