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.
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.