Most of us are content with not doing too much harm during our time on earth, and then there are people who do good. This reflection is always provoked by seeing Jaime Ollé, the Catalan doctor and epidemiologist, who has dedicated his life to trying to cure the most disadvantaged in countries like Uganda, Mali, Djibouti and especially Haiti, where he arrived in the sixties. Ollé (Barcelona, 83 years old) currently remains bedridden in his house on the Carretera de las Aigües in Barcelona, suffering from a disabling spinal disease, irritated by the lack of activity and by not being able to continue lending a hand with so much there is to do in the world.
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