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SISTER Maura Lynch has become the first woman to receive the 'Fellow Award' of the Association of Surgeons in Uganda in recognition of her exemplary service to the development of surgery in that country. She says: 'I am particularly pleased to be able to represent women in medicine in this way.
Among those I have trained there are many women surgeons and it is great to see the contribution they are making. The most touching moment for me was when Lord Justice Geoffrey Kiyabwire of the Uganda High Court asked those in the audience who had been my students to stand up. About 10 or 12 men and women rose to their feet to great applause. They are now working as surgeons in many different parts of Uganda. Over lunch we had a lovely reunion when they recalled their days with us at Kitovu Hospital.'
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