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Irena Białówna (3 November 1900 – 7 February 1982) was a Polish pediatrician, public health professional, concentration camp survivor, and member of the Polish parliament.
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Irena Białówna (3 November 1900 – 7 February 1982) was a Polish pediatrician, public health professional, concentration camp survivor, and member of the Polish parliament.
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Biography Białówna was born in 1900 in Caricyn (Volgograd) to railway engineer Józef Biały, and teacher Kazimiera née Kobylińska. Both of her parents were the children of physicians. Her maternal grandfather, Dr Jan Kobyliński, was deported to Simbirsk for treating wounded Polish insurgents in the 1863 Uprising. The family home offered hospitality to many Polish people who were working in Russia. Białówna attended Russian secondary school, but also spoke fluent Polish and was familiar with Polish history and literature. In 1920 she started studying medicine at the University of Voronezh in Central Russia. After a year she moved with her family to Poland to continue her studies at the Medical University of Warsaw. When she was in her fourth year she was president of the students’ paediatric society attached to the children's clinic directed by Professor Mieczysław Michałowicz. She obtained her diploma in 1927. She rejected a job offered by the university and instead moved to Białystok. She volunteered at the St. Roche's Hospital, worked as a school doctor and co-organized summer camps for children from poverty-stricken families. During the Invasion of Poland, she served in the Polish Red Cross. In 1941, she was the head of the Children's Department…
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After the war After the liberation of the camp, she was evacuated to Sweden, but returned to Białystok in September 1945. After the war, on her initiative the State Home for Small Children and the Training Center for Social Paediatrics and Obstetrics were created with UNICEF and Swedish funding, as well as paediatric and newborn departments in multiple Białystok hospitals. She also ran a private practice, treating children from poor families for free, often supporting them monetarily out of her own pocket. Later, she worked, among others as the head of the children's ward of the Provincial Śniadecki Hospital, where the Department and Clinic of Children's Diseases of the Medical University of Bialystok were established. She founded and acted as first president of the Białystok Branch of the Polish Paediatric Society. Białówna held the position of assistant professor. She resigned from University duties after being elected to Sejm in 1957 with 194,010 votes in the Białystok Province. There she was active in the Health Committee and the Social Affairs and Social Policy Committee. She was a member of the International Paediatric Society, Scientific Council at the Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Scientific Council of the Institute of Mother and…
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Legacy In 1990 the City Council of Białystok named a street in her honour.