He embarked with a Slovak surgeon colleague and was dropped off in a pediatric hospital in Santana, joining Jean Picard, Michel Castet, Anne-Marie Barbé, and Guy Hanon.

There was a kitchen, a laundry room, a pharmacy and a laboratory, three trucks, three cars and two motorcycles, a carpentry workshop and, to feed the patients, a large vegetable garden, with banana and cassava fields and a goat farm.

[3] At Uli, the airport where international aid arrived in Biafra, Schittly encountered the horror of war, particularly the bombings by East German mercenaries.

Following a rumor that these doctors were mercenaries, Schittly and his colleagues were transferred to Lagos for questioning by the judicial police, then put under surveillance in a hotel in town.

Since France could not intervene because of its recognition of the State of Biafra, they were tried and found guilty of illegal entry into Nigeria and sentenced to six months in prison and a fine.

[3] The Order of Malta offered Schittly the position of chief physician for three camps for Biafran refugee children in Ivory Coast.

[3] In 1971, having no desire to settle down as a country doctor, Schittly decided to help in Vietnam, joining the Da Nang hospital of the German Order of Malta.

Following a security investigation carried out by Georges Marchais on his militant activity in France, Schittly was recruited six weeks later to steal medicines from the hospital cellar, remove the German labels, translate them into French, load the boxes into a jeep, drive about ten kilometers from the city, stop to take a photo, while they steal the medicines and then return to the hospital, as if nothing had happened.

In June 1972, his contract was not renewed, and his return trip took him to Saigon and then to Phnom Penh, through Thailand, Burma, Laos, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Taiwan, Borneo, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey over five months.

[3] For six years, the clinic treated varied health conditions encountered locally, operating from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Louis recruited several doctors via France Blue Alsace.