Devoted doctor's house in Khanh Hoa wins national recognition
The house where Alexandre Yersin, a Swiss-born doctor and bacteriologist, lived in and worked in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa has been included in the cluster of national historical relic sites dedicated to him.
Devoted doctor Alexandre Yersin's workplace in Khanh Hoa wins national recognition
Khanh Hoa (VNA) – The house where AlexandreYersin, a Swiss-born doctor and bacteriologist, lived in and worked in the centralcoastal province of Khanh Hoa has been included in the cluster of nationalhistorical relic sites dedicated to him.
Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen VanHung issued Decision No. 699/QD-BVHTTDL on the recognition of the house on Hon Ba Mount in Suoi Cat commune, Cam Lam district.
Yersin (1863-1943) studied medicine in France, andthen became a bacteriologist and an adventurer. He arrived in Khanh Hoa’s NhaTrang city in 1891 to work and lived there until his passing. The doctorfounded the Nha Trang Pasteur Institute in 1895, the Hanoi Pasteur Institute in1926, and the Da Lat Pasteur Institute in 1936. Yersin was also the founder andthe first principal of the Indochina Medicine School, now the Hanoi MedicalUniversity and the Hanoi University of Pharmacy.
He grew many industrial trees and medicinal plants inSuoi Dau, Khanh Hoa, and discovered Hon Ba Mount and the Lang Biang Plateau inthe Central Highlands province of Lam Dong.
Yersin was honoured with the title of “HonoraryCitizen of Vietnam” by the Vietnamese government in 2013.
The house where Yersin lived in and conductedexperiments and scientific research is about 60km southwest of Nha Trang city. However, it wasdestroyed over time, and Khanh Hoa then built another on the old foundationwith the same architecture and materials in memory of the doctor.
His grave in Suoi Dau and his museum at the NhaTrang Pasteur Institute were recognised as national historical relic sites bythe Ministry of Culture - Information, Sports and Tourism, now the Ministry ofCulture, Sports and Tourism, in 1990.
More than 10 years ago, Khanh Hoa also constructed apark dedicated to the doctor near the Nha Trang coast./.
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Devoted doctor Alexandre Yersin's workplace in Khanh Hoa wins national recognition 
