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Evangelina Rodríguez Led an Extraordinary Life as the Dominican Republic’s First Female Doctor
Evangelina Rodríguez Led an Extraordinary Life as the Dominican Republic’s First Female Doctor Born into poverty and abandoned by her parents, Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo rises from a life selling sweets in the street to become the first female Dominican doctor in 1911 By Laura Gómez, Lorena Galliot, Samia Bouzid & The Lost Women of…
‘It was extraordinary’: Spanish captain recalls rescue of woman who gave birth in dinghy
Mother and newborn saved from inflatable boat off Canary Islands, on a route on which thousands have died The call that would lead to one of the most poignant images of the humanitarian emergency in the deadly waters off the Canary Islands came at 4am Monday morning. The command centre of Spain’s Salvamento Marítimo (Maritime…