Hélène Brasseur

22 December 2022

Queen Mathilde received Doctor Brasseur at the Royal Palace.

Marie-Hélène Brasseur is a Belgian doctor from Charleroi who set up a free health clinic in Seoul, South Korea, fifty years ago for underprivileged patients.

She's greatly admired by Mathilde who visited her twice:
-> in 2000 (here: https://queenmathilde.blogspot.com/2018/04/flashback-trade-mission-to-south-korea.html )
-> in 2019 (here: https://queenmathilde.blogspot.com/2018/03/coming-up-brazil.html).

Nowadays Dr Brasseur runs a small palliative hospice in Seoul for those who cannot afford care.

This was no doubt Mathilde's final acticity of the year.