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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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Badge of Merit of the Order of the White Rose of Finland1933

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Country
Finland
Category
Doctors
Type
Doctor
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1873 to 1939 · aged 65