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Dr ADAM MOHAMED

enrolled at a Medical School. a difference.

“I am not done yet. Like I have said, there is a
“I lived there from 1963 for six years until I great deal of work that needs to be done for our
qualified. The degree was not recognized in people. I am going to do what is necessary as my
South Africa, so I went to Ireland where I contribution. I urge all South Africans to try and do
continued to further my studies. the same. We are indeed a wonderful nation” said
“Once that was done, I went to London for a year Dr Adam Mahomed.
and by this time armed with further qualifications,
I returned home.

“In 1971, I opened my practice in Chatsworth in
Unit 3 in a shopping centre. I had a very small
shop, which I converted, to a surgery.
“But I was busy, at times I was seeing 80 patients
a day and got to know the community well,” he
said.Two years later he married Noorjehan and
they set up house.

Soon after the Soweto riots in 1976 and with
two little daughters, the family went to London
so that he could specialize.
With that done, they returned home and set
up house in Isipingo.

However in 1986 tragedy struck and the
couple lost their children.Life was not
going to be the same.But now, he is
looking to the future and believes that
everyone can make