EMPATHY AND MEDICINE INTERLINK
PALESA DLAMINI palesa.dlamini@citypress.co.za
What does being a public health specialist entail in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic? For Atiya Mosam, it’s about more than just being a doctor – it has meant feeding families, finding people money for electricity and airtime, and assisting the homeless. “My goal is to just have one person whose life can be bettered in any way,” she says. Awake to the negative impact something such as Covid-19 could have beyond people’s health, the public health medicine specialist has been at the forefront of food security initiatives through her Community Connect programme. To date, they have fed more than 800 families nationwide. “I am a public health medicine specialist – a medical
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