Studying in a one-room-kitchen house in a crowded Mumbai slum, Khan Rushda Praveen narrates her story of how she overcame the odds to now pursue her MBBS degree. She hopes to some day become a neurologist.
“For two years, I sat at home, feeling like a burden. Some said my parents spent ‘too much on a girl’s education’. After a point, I started believing it."
In fact, during a recent official visit to inspect the conditions of the block hospital, Akanksha found the designated doctor absent for some reason and attended to the waiting patients herself! #IAS #Inspiration
While literature abounds with books on the lives of engineers, IIT students, lawyers, politicians, sportspersons, soldiers, there were very few that told the story of doctors.
From August 2019, medical undergrads will have a new course to enhance doctors’ responsiveness to the needs of patients and their families. Get all details here!
Scoring the highest marks in NEET 2018 with an incredible 99.99 percentile, Delhi girl Kalpana Kumari (who hails from Bihar) has bagged the All India Rank 1 in CBSE's nation-wide medical entrance exam.