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She admired the children's extraordinary temperament they were unpredictable and full of resources. Rosmarie Nüssli did not give way to despair and resignation. There were also many premature babies, most weighing barely more than a kilo. Cases of plague, typhus and tuberculosis were not uncommon. Many were suffering from acute malnutrition, parasitic infections and diarrhea. The children were generally in a pitiful state when they arrived at the hospital - often very dirty and totally exhausted. ”Children with no family members there to take care of their basic needs, had no chance of making it” – Dr Rosmarie Nüssli, Switzerland In addition, each patient was accompanied by a relative because Vietnamese nurses basically only gave out medicines or injections. The hospital was full to bursting - just 70 small beds for over a hundred sick children. Hygiene was inexistent - there weren't enough nappies, mattresses or clean sheets and often no running water. The aims of the SRC were to care for the hospitalized children, train the local nursing personnel in pediatric care and run the hospital until it could be handed over to the Vietnamese medical authorities.įrom the moment they started work on 1 January 1968, Dr Nüssli's team was faced with very difficult conditions. Located 200km south of the demarcation line, this coastal town of 250,000 people provided refuge for large numbers of people who had fled the fighting. With the aim of improving the medical care of sick children, the SRC had a children's hospital in Da Nang. In late 1967 she got in charge of a team of three Swiss nurses assigned to a Vietnam children’s hospital. This have her the opportunity to deploy to Vietnam on a humanitarian mission. It was right at the time that the hospital signed an agreement with the SRC. Fresh out of medical school, Dr Rosmarie Nüssli started working at the Zurich children's hospital. She took evening classes to gain the qualifications needed for university and entered the medical faculty in Zurich. As high school wasn't an option for a young woman at that time, she resigned herself to training as a clerk and found an office job.

Born on 4 February 1937 in the little village of Tübach, Rosmarie Nüssli dreamt of becoming a doctor.
