Mehmed Sami Šerbić

Considered the first Bosnian medical doctor. He was sent by Topal Osman Pasha, the Governor of the Bosnian province, to Vienna and Constantinople to study medicine and finished his studies in 1873. He returned to Bosnia and in 1874 established “Hastahana”, first hospital in Tuzla. When the Austro-Hungarian Empire annexed Bosnia & Herzegovina there were only 6 or 7 physicians in the country.