Fe del Mundo, an extraordinary broad*,
Was the first female to get a Harvard Medical Degree award,
She was valedictorian in Manila in 1933,
And the president offered to pay a scholarship overseas,
She joined Harvard Medical School in 1936,
Ten years before women belonged to its mortar and bricks’
Del Mundo only got in due to an oversight,
But the head of paediatrics wanted her so put up a fight,
She had to be moved out of an all male dorm,
So her admission was way beyond the norm.
She mastered in Chicago then returned to the Phillippines,
And became one of the Red Cross’s figurines,
She set up a hospice and worked with kids,
Her fame preceded her, whatever she did.
To fund a kid’s hospital, she sold her home,
And virtually everything else that she owned,
She handed over the ownership of it to her board of trustees,
And continued research into infectious disease.
She gave up the hospital in 1957,
But continued to work there 24/7,
She took up residence on the second floor,
So she could continue to always be a part and do more,
She did hospital visits at 99,
From the wheelchair which she had to use at the time,
She finally died of a heart attack, an angel from heaven,
Just before she reached 100 in 2011,

*slang British term for woman