Leonid Roshal

Peter Vail: The man of the Day of Radio Liberty on October 25 is a famous Russian doctor, Red Cross officer Leonid Roshal, who today assisted hostages in the Dubrovka theater center and tried to agree with those who seized them.

Leonid Roshal was born in the 33rd year in the city of Livna of the Oryol region. In the 57th year he graduated from the second medical institution with a degree in pediatrics. He worked as a local doctor. For 20 years, he collaborated with the Moscow Regional Research Clinical Institute named after Vladimir. From the 81st-the head of the clinic of emergency surgery and childhood injuries of the Academic Research Institute of Pediatrics of the Scientific Center for Children's Health. Chairman of the International Committee for Assistance to Children with Disaster and Wars. Doctor of Medicine, Professor.

Our observer, in the first profession, the general practitioner, Elena Fanailova, speaks of the man of the day of Radio Liberty.

Elena Fanailova: Journalists call Leonid Roshal "Children's Doctor of the World." They call him from anywhere in the earth and ask for help if children were injured there. After the earthquake in Spitak in December 1988, the children's surgeon Leonid Roshal stood in the middle of a scientific conference and said: "I urgently leave for Armenia. Who is with me?" The experience gained by him and his Spitak brigade is recognized as unique. From this moment, 14 years and more than 20 expeditions of Roshal and the team of his like-minded people in the areas of disasters passed. He helped to cope with the consequences of earthquakes in the various ends of the Earth-in Egypt, Turkey, India, from the American San Francisco to the Japanese Kobe. He saved the children after the railway disaster near Ufa, the explosion of the plant in Ust-Kamenogorsk, a terrorist act in Kaspiysk. He worked in revolutionary Romania and fighting Yugoslavia, in Nagorno-Karabakh and Chechnya, in Grozny, Urus-Martan, Samashkakh, Gudermes. Three times in Afghanistan both during the Taliban, and after their overthrow. Friends answered: "Of the two hundred Afghans 195 they will shoot at the Russians, and five will remember - there was a Russian doctor, he saved my child." Leonid Roshal was born in the family of a military pilot. It is proud that he worked as a local doctor. He considers his clinic the best hospital on Earth. Never engaged in private practice. “I am a doctor of urgent assistance,” he says about himself. “If I had not been a surgeon, I would work on an ambulance. I can sleep in marching conditions, is ready to work on the first signal, drink boiling water instead of tea and coffee. Claims that he lives on the future. I would put a monument to the perestroika era. The film shot about it is called nothing. In dangerous situations, God saves him that all people become believers when their child falls on the operating table. I fly them, regardless of what kind of nationality they are, what political and religious beliefs their parents are. ”All doctors consider children's surgeons the best people in the world.