Raed Arafat is a Palestinian doctor that lives in Romania for more than 30 years. Emergency medicine was his great passion since childhood. He decided to set up a public emergency intervention system (SMURD) at amazing standards that saves everyday hundreds of lives. Starting with just an ambulance car, he arrived this year to buy an airplane in order to transport the patients in a very sensitive health condition. Decorated by two presidents of Romania with the Order of Merit and by the former King Michael I of Romania with the royal decoration.
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