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Vietnam: February 27: Doctor's Day was founded on February 28, 1955. The day is celebrated on February 27 or sometimes dates closest to this date. [26] Venezuela: March 10: Doctor's Day. This date was chosen to honor José María Vargas, who was not only an outstanding physician but also a President of the Republic of Venezuela.
Đặng Thùy Trâm (November 26, 1942 – June 22, 1970) was a Vietnamese doctor. She worked as a battlefield surgeon for the People's Army of Vietnam and Vietcong during the Vietnam War. Her wartime diaries, which chronicle the last two years of her life, attracted international attention following their publication in 2005.
Formerly the Police Day (Ngày Cảnh sát Quốc gia) in South Vietnam June 28: Vietnamese Family Day: Ngày Gia đình Việt Nam July 27: Remembrance Day (Day for Martyrs and Wounded Soldiers or Vietnamese War Invalids and Martyrs’ Day) Ngày Thương binh Liệt sĩ August 19: August Revolution Commemoration Day: Ngày Cách mạng Tháng 8
Later in a 1988 interview with National Geographic, Vũ Kỳ explained that in 1969, as Ho Chi Minh's health gradually become worse, Vũ Kỳ secretly sent three local Vietnamese doctors to the Soviet Union to learn the embalming technique (as with the case involving Soviet former leader Vladimir Lenin) for the preservation of Ho Chi Minh's ...
Christian feast day: Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows; George Herbert (Anglicanism) Honorina; Leander; February 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Doctors' Day (Vietnam) Independence Day (Dominican Republic), celebrates the first independence of Dominican Republic from Haiti in 1844. Majuba Day (some Afrikaners in South Africa) Marathi Language Day ...
As we gather here today to celebrate National Doctors Day on March 30, I am honored to stand before you as an infectious disease doctor. Every day, I witness the resilience of the human spirit and ...
A Vietnamese doctor who has helped seek justice for victims of the powerful defoliant dioxin “Agent Orange” used by U.S. forces during the Vietnam War is among this year’s winners of the ...
In 1954, his parents and five siblings escaped communist North Vietnam to seek refuge in South Vietnam. A day after the fall of Saigon, Bui, who was 17 at the time, fled with his family by boat to ...