IF I COULD BE SOMEONE,WHO WOULD I BE?

If I could be someone, I want to be a woman that had everything. Someone that have good personality and good attitude, love to smile and very caring person. If I could be someone, I want to be like Tun Dr Siti Hasmah Mohd Ali. Why I want to be like her? Because to me she was a perfect woman. She had the education, good attitude, very humble. Let me explain a little bit about her.

• Tun Dr Siti Hasmah was born in Klang, Selangor on July 12, 1926.

• She obtained her MBBS from the University of Malaya in Singapore.

• Often a pioneer in her profession, Tun Dr. Siti Hasmah was one of the first Malay women to enroll for a medical course at the King Edward VII College of Medicine in Singapore after World War II.

• In 1955 she graduated as a medical doctor from the Faculty of Medicine, University Malaya, which was then located in Singapore.

• She subsequently joined the government health service. She was one of the first Malay woman doctors in then Malaya. She married to Mahathir the following year in August.

• Ten years later, she became the first woman to be appointed Medical Officer in the Maternal and Child Health Department, and in 1974, she was the first woman to be appointed the State Maternal and Child Health Officer.

• Tun Dr Siti Hasmah is the author of several articles on family medicine and the socioeconomic factors associated with pregnancy and childbearing in Malaysia.

I’ve met her at maternity ward at Putrajaya Hospital. I was there because my sister’s eldest child birth, in front my sister bed, is Tun Dr Siti Hasmah maid. She comes to see her maid. She very caring person, even through her maid is not Malaysian, her still care. She also pays the medical cost. She also comes to my sister bed and asking my sister condition. She also said to the doctor and nurse over there that “make your patient feel pleasure not pressure”. I love her style. She speaks properly, smoothly. She smiles always. Even though she was a doctor but she never boast.