Toma Ciorbă, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Moldavian physician (1864-1936)
Date of Birth: 15-Jan-1864
Place of Birth: Chișinău, Moldova
Date of Death: 30-Dec-1936
Profession: physician
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Toma Ciorbă
- Toma Ciorba (January 15, 1864–December 30, 1936) was a Bessarabian-born Romanian physician and hospital director. Born in Chi?inau (Kishinev), then the capital of the Russian Empire's Bessarabia Governorate, after 1918 a part of Greater Romania and now the capital of Moldova, he was the first of six children and his father was a soldier.
- In 1875, he entered Bessarabia's leading secondary school, and in 1885, he began studying at Kiev University's medicine faculty.
- In 1893, after graduation, he returned to his native city to work as a physician in the health service.In 1896, he planned and opened an infectious disease hospital, of which he became director.
- It was the first specialized medical facility in the province, and Ciorba, in addition to being administrator, worked as a bacteriologist and a teacher to young nurses and midwives.
- He encountered resistance both from the authorities and from the increasing number of private doctors, and found it difficult to purchase equipment and medicine.
- He lived modestly and did not charge poor patients, indeed often paying for their medicines or sending them wood for their stoves.
- He was invited to work in Saint Petersburg, but declined.He promoted an anti-smallpox vaccine, creating a laboratory for its production, and began a program for the compulsory vaccination of children against the disease.
- In addition, he introduced vaccine therapy in the treatment of diphtheria.
- In the Russo-Japanese War, he served as a field doctor in the Imperial Russian Army.
- Afterwards, he initiated a provincial society for Red Cross nurses, and managed the building of a Red Cross clinic.
- He retired as hospital director in 1932.
- Today, both the Chi?inau Infectious Disease Hospital and a nearby street bear his name.
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