Hüseyin İhsan Paşa

Born in Istanbul in 1862, Hüseyin İhsan Paşa was the son of Hacı Derviş Efendi, director of the Gurebâ-yı Müslimîn Hospital. He grew up around Gureba Hospital and, after Fatih Rüşdiye, graduated from the Imperial School of Medicine and chose medicine as his profession.

In 1882 he was appointed to Beylerbeyi Paşa Dairesi Hospital, and in 1884 transferred to Gurebâ-yı Müslimîn Hospital as a physician. In 1890, as an additional duty, he worked at Beyoğlu Nisa Hospital, and in 1895 rose to the post of second chief physician, or assistant chief physician, at Gureba Hospital.

Hüseyin İhsan Paşa translated the work Emrâz-ı Etfâl on childhood diseases from the English physician Edward Ellis and presented a copy to the sultan. In 1894 he was sent to Berlin to advance his professional knowledge; at Rixdorf Hospital in Berlin he trained in the diagnosis of microbial diseases and in bacteriology, returning to Istanbul in 1897.

After the Second Constitutional Period, during the modernization process that began at Gureba Hospital, he was appointed chief physician of the hospital in 1909. During his brief term as chief physician, hospital beds were renewed, waiting areas were built for outpatient patients, the disinfection room and pharmacy were repaired, and the daily functioning of the hospital was reorganized according to European time.

Doctor Hüseyin İhsan Paşa died in 1911 and was buried in the Fatih Mosque Cemetery.