Selma Rainio
Finnish missionary and physician · Finland · On the map · Doctors · Lived 1873 to 1939 · aged 65
Selma Rainio was a Finnish missionary with the Finnish Missionary Society, the first Finnish medical missionary, who founded the Onandjokwe Hospital in the Ondonga tribal area in Ovamboland. She also worked in the Engela Hospital. In Ovamboland, she was known as Kuku Selma ‘grandmother Selma’.
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Finland
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Doctors
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Doctor
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Deceased
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Lived 1873 to 1939 · aged 65