Chang Kee-ryo (Korean: 장기려; 14 August 1911[2]– 25 December 1995) was a surgeon, educator, and philanthropist of South Korea.
[4] In 1979, he won the Ramon Magsaysay Award "for his practical, personal Christian charity and in founding the Blue Cross Health Cooperative in Pusan".
After graduation, he entered Keijō Medical School as an assistant at the surgery department and became a disciple of Professor Paik Inje of the Korean Surgical Society.
[citation needed] When he was seriously contemplating his future career in his youth, his father's business failure made his family finances difficult and he applied to Keijō Medical School because of its government-supported tuition.
After graduation, he entered Keijō Medical School as an assistant to study further under Professor Paik Inje, the Korean surgical authority.
He found his wife and children in the ranks of the refugees, but he could not stop and ask for a ride for his family because the emergency patients were on board.
In the following year, wishing to help refugees from the North, Chang set up a tent in Yeongdo-gu, Busan, and established the Clinic of Gospel, which was a precursor to the current Gosin Hospital, to provide free medical treatment for the poor until June 1976.
At that time, South Korea's first medical insurance union succeeded with one belief that it could not overburden the poor despite the lack of understanding and financial difficulties surrounding it.
Through this experience, he researched seven more sepsis cases and published his paper "Rereoperitoneum Cellulitis" in The Journal of the Japanese Surgical Society.
He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Medicine at Japan Nagoya University for publishing "Bacteriological Research on Appendictius and Peritonitis due to Appendicitis" on 20 September 1940.
Chang presented "A morphological research on intrahepatic blood vessels and biliary tract of Koreans" at the Academic Conference of the Medical Society of Korea in October 1960.
Chang won the Ramon Magsaysay Award for "his practical, personal Christian charity and in founding the Blue Cross Health Cooperative" in 1979.