Russian Medicine Saved Girl

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31058, 13 May 1966, Page 13

Russian Medicine Saved Girl

N Z-P A. Reuter—Copyright > MOSCOW, May 12.

A radio enthusiast in Italy, telephone girls in Rome and Moscow, Russian doctors, and a British airline combined recently to save the life of a sick Argentine girl, “Izvestia” reported.

The race for life began when an Italian named Gianetti, listening to his radio receiver in Brescia, picked up a broadcast appeal by a Buenos Aires hospital for sarcolisin, a medicine available only in Russia. “We need it immediately,” the doctors said. “It is for Marti Yatamlyaki, who is 17. We have just had to operate on her.”

Mr Gianetti immediately rang the Rome international exchange, which got in touch with Moscow. A leading Moscow doctor was roused by the Moscow operator after a quick

consultation with the duty officer at the Ministry of Health. The next day a dose of the medicine was rushed to Moscow Airport by two telephone girls.

There the medicine was put ' on board a British European: Airlines plane leaving for| London, where it was trans- ' ferred to a South Americabound airliner. The next day, Mr Gianetti against picked up a message from the Buenos Aires hospital and passed it on to Moscow. The message said: “Eternal thanks from Marti's parents to all her Soviet friends.”