Covid-19 was ‘heartbreaking’, says youngest doctor: At 21, Thakgalo Thibela became South Africa’s youngest female doctor and her first years in hospital coincided with the pandemic
Last year I was doing obstetrics [pregnancy and childbirth]. When I was on call, I would see anywhere from 40 to 60 patients. This is from 7am to 7am the next day. You have to be responsible for all of these patients, you have to see them at least every four hours or every two hours, depending on what condition they have. It would be draining because in between seeing these patients, you still need to go to theatre. You try your best to see everyone but you just can’t split yourself.
Let’s talk a bit about that first moment that Covid-19 hit. Can you take me back to that time and what it was like?hit in 2020 I was in my final year of medical school. It really changed the way we had to be taught medicine because it was before the vaccine era. Everyone was relying on masks and sanitising, and there were things that we were not allowed to do because of Covid-19.
As a young black woman trying to get into a science field, how did you manage to overcome some of the hurdles that were surely put in your way?
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