Nina Berova-Orahovac

Nymfodora "Nina" Berova-Orahovac (Bulgarian: Нимфодора "Нина" Берова-Ораховац; 27 November 1859 – 23 May 1945) was a Bessarabian-Bulgarian woman who was a co-founder of the School Health Institute and the student summer camp in Pancharevo. She was raised in the Bulgarian communities of Kubei and Bolhrad in what is now Ukraine. After graduating as a physician from the Medical Academy of Saint Petersburg in Russia, she became the second Bessarabian physician to work in Bulgaria. She completed her residency at the Aleksandrovska Hospital in Sofia, serving as a medic during the Serbo-Bulgarian War. Later she worked in the hospitals in Vidin, Lovech and Koprivshtitsa, before returning to Sofia. Along with Velichko Georgiev, she founded the Bulgarian School Health Institute, to train professionals in hygiene and health to work as school doctors. In 1905, she was one of the founders of the women's association which established summer camps to educate and promote good health for students. She worked as a school nurse until 1915, and remained active in the Bulgarian Medical Association until her death.