Fe Villanueva del Mundo was a Filipino đľđ pediatrician and the first woman admitted as a student of the Harvard Medical School. After school she returned home. Frustrated by the bureaucratic constraints in working for a government hospital, del Mundo had desired to establish her own pediatric hospital. She sold her home and most of her personal belongings and obtained a sizable loan from the government in order to finance the construction of her own hospital. The Childrenâs Medical Center, a 100-bed hospital located in Quezon City, was inaugurated in 1957 as the first pediatric hospital in the Philippines. Having sold her home to finance the medical center, del Mundo chose to reside at the second-floor of the hospital itself. As late as 2007, she retained her living quarters at the hospital (since renamed the âDr. Fe del Mundo Childrenâs Medical Center Foundationâ), rising daily at five in the morning and continuing to make her daily rounds even though then wheelchair-bound at 99 years of age. Del Mundo was active in the field of public health, with special concerns towards rural communities. She organized rural extension teams to advise mothers on breastfeeding and child care and promoted the idea of linking hospitals to the community through the public immersion of physicians and other medical personnel to allow for greater coordination among health workers and the public for common health programs such as immunization and nutrition. She called for the greater integration of midwives into the medical community, considering their more visible presence within rural communities. Del Mundo was also known for having devised an incubator made out of bamboo, designed for use in rural communities without electrical power. She died on August 6, 2011. #theunsungheroines
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