A Modern Doctor Schweitzer

A physician from Spain devotes his life to treating patients in a small village in Africa. Despite the lack of modern medical equipment and personal amenities, he finds satisfaction in caring for patients who would otherwise go without medical treatment.

He has some features in common with Dr. Albert Schweitzer. He is tall like him and has a moustache, and somewhat of a beard. But, more significantly, he has the same obsession to help the suffering poor.

Albert Schweitzer had abandoned a successful career as a musicologist and religious educator in Europe, and at the age of 30 began to study medicine. After obtaining his medical degree, he went to Africa and devoted his life to treating the poor and sick in his legendary clinic in Lambarene, Gabon, in what was then known as French Equatorial Guinea. For his work he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952.

Dr. Ramon Vila, a young Spanish physician, has devoted his life to treating destitute patients in Niefang, a town in Equatorial Guinea, a West …