Armenian doctors Armine Barkhudaryan, Hayk Hovhannisyan and Gevorg Voskanyan have returned Nuba Mountains in Sudan where they were substituting 2017 Aurora Prize laureate Tom Catina while the letter was in Armenia. Dr. Tom Catena, a Catholic missionary from Amsterdam, New York who has saved thousands of lives as the sole doctor permanently based in Sudan’s war-ravaged Nuba Mountains where humanitarian aid is restricted. He was selected as the 2017 Aurora Prize Laureate from more than 550 nominations submitted from 66 countries.
For the last nine years, Dr Catena – known by locals as “Dr Tom” – has been on-call 24 hours a day, seven days a week at the Mother of Mercy Catholic Hospital to care for the more than 750,000 citizens of Nuba amidst ongoing civil war between the Government of Sudan and the Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement. Patients have been known to walk for up to seven days to receive treatment for injuries from bombing attacks and ailments varying from bone fractures to malnourishment and malaria. It is estimated that Dr Catena treats 500 patients per day and performs more than one thousand operations each year.
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