Olivia Salamanca was the second woman in the Philippines to earn a medical degree. She became the secretary of the Philippine Anti-Tuberculosis Society where she wrote its constitution and by-laws.

OLIVIA SALAMANCA

Salamanca studied at the Women's Medical College in Pennsylvania in 1910, making her the second woman in the Philippines to earn a medical degree.

She became the secretary of the Philippine Anti-Tuberculosis Society where she wrote its constitution and by-laws. She became a victim of the white plague but continued working while undergoing treatment. She died shortly after that at the age of 24, of tuberculosis.

1 July 1889

to 13 July 1913