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Graziella Fumagalli

Graziella Fumagalli (24 August 1944 in Casatenovo - 22 October 1995 in Merca) was an Italian doctor. She was a Catholic volunteer, killed in Somalia in 1995 at the Anti-tuberculosis Center which she directed.

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She graduated in Medicine and Surgery in 1980. She specialized in Pediatric Surgery in France in 1985 and studied Tropical Medicine in 1989. She moved to Guinea-Bissau with the non-governmental organization Mani Tese. In 1993, she went to Mozambique as head of a health project of the Italian Association for Solidarity among Peoples (AISPO).

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