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Fe del Mundo

Fe Primitiva del Mundo y Villanueva, Philippine pediatrician (Manila 27 November 1909 – Quezón City 06 August 2011)


Authored over 100 articles

First female student at Harvard Medical School (1936)


INVENTIONS

A bamboo radiant warmer used as incubator in rural communities (1973)

A photo therapy device for jaundice relieving

A cloth-suspended scale to weigh infants

BRAT (banana, rice, apple and tea) diet for curing diarrhea


HONOURS

Award, 15th International Congress of Pediatrics (1977)