DR. TEKLE-AB MEKBIB

摘要

Describe your path to becoming a medical doctor. During school vacations, I accompanied my sister, a community nurse, when she traveled to rural health centers in Ethiopia. Her team examined children and pregnant women and helped women in labor. I dreamt of becoming a doctor so that I could help women in need. I began my university studies in Addis Ababa. As a result of a national uprising in 1974, the university closed, but I was selected for a scholarship to study medicine in St. Petersburg, Russia and later pursued a PhD there in maternal and neonatal health. In 1988, I joined the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Yekatit 12 Hospital in Addis Ababa. Becoming a medical doctor and ob-gyn specialist has been the most gratifying event in my life.