Nagasaki University
At the time, a widespread cholera outbreak was killing thousands in Japan, and at Pompe van Meerdervoort’s suggestion the Tokugawa shogunate agreed to open Japan's first western-style hospital, the Nagasaki Yojosho, with 124 beds and a medical school in Nagasaki in 1861 This facility is now the medical school of Nagasaki University. People were surprised by his insistence on treating all patients equally without regard to their wealth or social standing.