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Image: Having spent his childhood in Kinshasa, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) before returning to Belgium in the late 1980s, Patrick de Smet has experienced two very different settings for haemophilia care. Starting prophylaxis in the 1990s enabled him to embark on a career in nursing. He now chairs the Belgian Haemophilia Society
