Wanda Błeńska, also spelled Wanda Blenska (30 October 1911 – 27 November 2014),[1] was a Polish leprosy expert, AK officer, and a Catholic lay missionary who succeeded to develop the Buluba Hospital in Uganda into an internationally recognized centre for leprosy treatment.
From 1951 to 1994, she worked in a leprosy treatment centre in the village of Buluba, near Lake Victoria in Uganda, where, until 1983, she was the physician-in-chief.
Initially, a small facility run by the Irish Franciscans, the centre grew into a modern therapeutic and training center with a 100-bed hospital and a children's branch, diagnostic facilities, homes for lepers and the church, now known as Buluba Hospital.
In Buluba, Dr. Błeńska worked with other Polish doctors: Bohdan Kozłowski, Wanda Marczak-Malczewska, Elżbieta Kołakowska, Dr. Henryk Nowak.
In February 2020, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Poznań initiated the first steps for her beatification process.