What kind of people make you ashamed to be a human being? This is Dr. Tetsu Nakamura, a Japanese doctor who spent decades of his life helping people in Afghanistan. Recently, Nakamura aged 73 was shot dead alongside five of his colleagues when gunmen ambushed their car. Dr. Nakamura settled in eastern Afghanistan for decades. He arrived in the region in 1984 to treat refugees and people suffering from leprosy disease. He helped to build a 70-bed hospital and several clinics. Dr. Tetsu Nakamura said: “As a doctor, nothing is better than healing patients and sending them happy to their home.” Later, he had devoted his life to improving the conditions of war-stricken Afghan people, particularly the peasants. For that, he needed to help people eat better food and drink clean water, so he assisted villagers in digging wells. He drew on a wide variety of Japanese methods to channel a 25-mile canal. It transformed a vast stretch of desert into forest and wheat fields. Dr. Tetsu Nakamura...
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