Raymond Borel is a French
doctor, editor of the medical journal ''TONUS'' and one of the founders of
Médecins Sans Frontières.
Borel had founded an aid organization called ''Secours Médical Français'' ("French Medical Relief") in response to the
1970 Bhola cyclone
The 1970 Bhola cyclone (Also known as the Great Cyclone of 1970) was a devastating tropical cyclone that struck East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh) and India's West Bengal on November 11, 1970. It remains the deadliest tropical cyclone ever re ...
. In December 1971, this group merged with ''Groupe d'Intervention Médicale et Chirurgicale en Urgence'', to form the single organization ''Médicins Sans Frontières''.
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Médecins Sans Frontières
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century French physicians
Medical journal editors
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