Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
The Republican Forum with International Participation: Medicine and Education, Role of A Woman Devoted to the 300-Year Anniversary of the Birthday of Salomeya Regina Rusetskaya Belarusian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education (BELMAPO) in collaboration with EU and UNESCO, Minsk, Belarus, 5 - 07 Aralık 2019
The Republican Forum with
International Participation:
Medicine and Education, Role of A Woman
Devoted to the 300-Year Anniversary of the Birthday of Salomeya Regina Rusetskaya
Belarusian
Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education (BELMAPO)
in collaboration with EU and UNESCO
Belarus- Minsk, 5-7 December 2019
The Exemplary Story of a Pioneering Pediatrist in Turkey
Dr. Safiye Ali Krekeller
(1894-1952)
a historical perspective, long way
to go
Yesim Isil Ulman (*)
Summary
Recent
studies in the history of medicine have shown that the modern healthcare
services of reproduction, mother and child health and newborn care date back to
the second half of the 19th, and to the first decades of the 20th century in
Turkey. Institutionalization of the contemporary scientific medicine was in the
making at this crucial historical turning point in the country that paved the
way for modern healthcare services to become widespread in the society. It is
remarkably important to mention, in this striking process, about the
achivements of Prof. Dr. Besim Omer Pasha (1861-1940) who opened the first
Maternity Hospital (Viladethane) within the School of Medicine in Istanbul in
1894, and conducted the teaching and training of modern obstetrics, gyneacology
and midwifery in the School.
One
of the great many young people he supported in the professional career was Dr.
Safiye Ali (1894-1952) who had been one of the first female physicians in
Turkey. Dr. Safiye Ali Krekeller graduated from Würzburg School of Medicine in
Germany on Ottoman State’s account, and turned back to country in 1921. She
worked at the Drop of Milk (Sut Damlasi)
Offices, the brand new mother and child healthcare clinics at the time which
rendered not only curative but also population based preventive medical
service. This study aims at introducing briefly the main features of Viladethane (Maternity Ward) and Sut Damlasi (Children Primary Healthcare
Service) by giving emphasis both on their role as pioneering institutions and
also on their approach that gave priority to public healthcare in Turkey.
By
her education, services in pediatric and maternal healthcare, pioneering duties
and professional conduct, Dr. Safiye Ali sets example for many women pursuant
of her goals to serve humanity equally and fairly with men.
Key words: Women in healthcare, Pediatric and
maternal health services, history of medicine, Turkey Glass ceiling
Acknowledgement: National Academy of
Sciences of Belarus, Belarusian
Academy of Post Graduate
Education, Republican Center of Bioethics, Prof. Dr. Valerya Skolchick, Prof.
Dziana Petrushkevich – Hourou, Prof. Evgeniya Kuznetzova
(*) Prof. Dr., Acibadem Univ. School of
Medicine, History of Medicine & Ethics Dept. Istanbul