Her sickly mother spurred her dreams to become a doctor while growing up in Mombasa. She wanted to learn how to help the indisposed.
For Dr Shaheen Sayed Mohammed, pathology was never her first choice.
For those like her who came from a conservative community, becoming a gynaecologist was the 'in-thing' for female doctors as a way of helping other women in the community and "when I went to medical school," she recalls, "I felt that was what I wanted to specialise in."
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