Oyunchimeg
Basic information
Interviewee ID: 990114
Name: Oyunchimeg
Parent's name: Nadmid
Ovog: Tsevel-Ochir
Sex: f
Year of Birth: 1950
Ethnicity: Halh
Additional Information
Education: higher
Notes on education:
Work: doctor
Belief: Buddhist
Born in: Tüdevtei sum, Zavhan aimag
Lives in: Nalaih sum (or part of UB), Ulaanbaatar aimag
Mother's profession: worked in special diplomatic shop
Father's profession: teacher
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Summary of Interview 090206A with Oyunchimeg
Nadmidiin Oyunchimeg was born in 1950 in Tüdevtei sum of Zavhan aimag. Her family moved to Ulaanbaatar when she was a child. After completing her high school, she enrolled in the Medical University, studied for 5 years and graduated. Then she went to Hujirt mineral spring (rashaan) resort as a physician and worked there for one year. Due to the opening of the Orgil rashaan resort in Ulaanbaatar, she was transferred to the new resort and worked there for 14 or 15 years. After that she went and worked as general physician for the miners’ resort in the Nalaih district. Eventually, she became a director and physician there. When the resort was closed down in 1993 she got to be a physician at the physical treatment ward at the Health Unit in Nalaih district and worked here still now.
Her father, Nadmid, was a teacher and her mother was a herder. Oyunchimeg was the first of 5 children her parents raised. She was interested in biology and had a dream to be a doctor since she was a schoolgirl. She became a physician, as she wanted. When she was a student, foreign students from Bulgaria, Russia, and German studied in her university as well. Those students were foreign professionals who lived and worked in Mongolia. In addition, most subjects were taught in Russian and almost all professional textbooks were in Russian when she studied.
She confronted many problems she was not familiar with when she started working as a physician for the Hujirt mineral spring resort just after graduation. The books used to be her teachers in such cases and senior experienced physicians used to teach and advise her as well. A physical treatment physician worked with various patients who suffered from different diseases. Therefore, he or she could not treat their patients unless they had the proper knowledge about every disease. Oyunchimeg worked for over 37 years in her specialty and retired. Although retired, she is still working as a physical treatment physician because of lack of professionals in this area.
Oyunchimeg was interested in the history of Mongolian rashaan studies and wrote some materials concerning it. Mongolian rashaan and mud treatments date from the twelfth or thirteenth century. In ancient times, emperors and kings received this treatment.
