FILIPINA NURSES IN BATAAN
Filipina nurses, Bruna R. Calvan, Carmen Lanot, and Pinay doctor, Guedelia M. Pablan. These Bataan medical professionals saw firsthand the grim and cruel treatment of both American and Filipino soldiers during the Death March. The three continued to stay in Bataan, even after the Japanese defeated MacArthur and secured the Philippines, in order to continue to heal and protect wounded civilians and soldiers in hiding. They did this despite the ongoing threat of Japanese military violence. After their hospital was burned down by Japanese troops, they moved to a convent to continue their work. That convent was also destroyed, causing the Filipina led medical crew to make their own makeshift health center by nearby fishing ponds, where they continued to aide in the recovery of malaria afflicted guerrilla troops by forging paperwork for more orders of quinine, which they sent to afflicted soldiers in the mountain camps via canoe across Manila Bay.
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