Rasmus Movin
The Danish contribution to the U.N. efforts in Korea is the hospitalship Jutlandia, which has three trips to Korea. It is a rebuilt cargo carrier and leaves for Korea 23. January 1951.
Capacity is 300 passengers and 93 personnel.
There are 5 hospital departments:
General surgery
neurosurgery
thorax/chest surgery
jaw surgery
and a department for epidemic, psychiatric and x-ray.
15 doctors, 40 nurses, 20 nurses aids and administrative personnel are onboard.
There are three operating rooms. They never managed to put in air condition as departure had been delayed, so in the end they sailed without this commodity. In the heat in Korea this meant that they often performed surgery at night when the temperature was lower.
Rasmus Movin was one of the doctors on board. At home his wife Nina was raising their four young children. An endeavor as demanding, as the one Rasmus embarked on.
When Jutlandia after ½ a year sailed home towards Denmark with wounded after the first voyage, then Rasmus Movin went ashore and helped set up a children’s hospital in Taegu. Others from Jutlandia helped him in this. The need was great and they were working non-stop during this period.
As 1951 came to an end he finally exhausted returned home.
For his work in Korea he was given the American bronze star.
Rasmus lived by a saying – credo:
‘Nothing is impossible. Do it today or somebody might come around tomorrow thinking it’s not impossible, and do it.’
Letter back home
Extract from the book:
A Danish doctor in love and war.
By Nina Movin
Korean War - Key Events
July 27, 1953
Mark W. Clark for the UN Command, Peng Dehuai for the Chinese, and Kim Il-Sung for North Korea conclude an armistice ending hostilities. A demilitarized zone is created that roughly follows the prewar border along the 38th parallel. South Korean Pres. Syngman Rhee announces his acceptance of the agreement, but no representative of South Korea ever signs the document.
These events are taken from the Encyclopedia Britannica
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