When the most vulnerable children in New Zealand meet Ruchika Tandon, she has a special way of brightening up their day and making them smile.
Ruchika works at Starship Children’s Hospital in Auckland as a paediatric clinical pharmacist. She’s the medical expert responsible for prescribing medicines and writing treatment plans as part of a sick child’s health journey.
But when she meets her pintsized patients, she introduces herself as a potions master and to prove it, she even hasnovels.