Surinamese physician and politician
Rudy George Henri (Rudi) Vonsée (December 29, 1926, in Paramaribo – April 25, 2016, in Geldrop[1]) was a Surinamese physician and politician.
In 1946 his mother made an official request to change his surname from Balinge to Vonsée.[2] In 1950 he came to the Netherlands and two years later he returned to Suriname as a medical graduate. He worked there as a company doctor at Billiton and was a general practitioner in Paramaribo from 1956 to 1961. He then left for the Netherlands again to specialize as a gynecologist. In 1966 Vonsee started working at the academic hospital in Paramaribo and from 1968 he was temporarily director-physician of a regional hospital in Nieuw-Nickerie. At the end of 1969 he became the Minister of Health on behalf of the Progressive Surinamese People's Party (PSV), stipulating that he could also remain somewhat active as a gynecologist. Two years later, he quite suddenly left politics and started working as a gynecologist at the St. Gregorius Hospital in Brunssum, Limburg.[3] He then indicated that he wanted to go for a PhD.
Vonsee passed away in 2016 at the age of 89.
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