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Margrethe P. Rask (1930 – 12 December 1977), better known as Grethe Rask, was a Danish physician and surgeon in Zaïre (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). After setting up her own hospital in the village of Abumombazi in 1972, she transferred to Danish Red Cross Hospital in Kinshasa in 1975.
- 1964–1977
- AIDS-related complications
- 1930, Thisted, Denmark
But Grethe Rask saved lives. The public health in Abumombasi was not impressive, the malaria inexorably killed people and the rainforest offered all kinds of other diseases. Grethe Rask saved many patients from disability and death, and became a very popular physician among the locals in the district. With warthogs on the menu
1. Juli 1988 · By 1976, Grethe Rask, a Danish doctor who had come to work in Zaire in 1964, had been inexplicably weary for two years. She was losing weight, and her lymph glands were swollen. For the...
14. Juni 2021 · December 12, 1977 - Grethe Rask, a Danish physician and surgeon who spent years working in the Congo, dies of pneumonia. Over several years, she suffered from a number of opportunistic...
Grethe Rask was a Danish surgeon who traveled to Zaïre in 1964 then again in 1972 to aid the sick. She was likely directly exposed to blood from many Congolese patients, one of whom infected her. She became unwell in 1974, then returned to Denmark in 1977, with her colleagues baffled by her symptoms.
22. Nov. 2023 · Dr. Grethe Rask, Danish physician, works in Kinshasa as a chief surgeon in a building of the Red Cross. She had not felt good for a while and decides to leave for Copenhagen to deepen her symptoms, such as asthenia, gut disturbances, swollen lymph nodes and weight loss. The analyses reveal a low number of T lymphocytes.
9. Feb. 2023 · Grethe Rask died in December 1977 from a disease which was later identified as AIDS. She was one of the first non-African patients (like Arvid Noe) to succumb to the consequences of AIDS. It seems that Dr. Rask showed symptoms of HIV at the end of 1974, e.g., fever, diarrhea, swollen lymph nodes, weight loss, and fatigue. The effects ...
