Tun Dr Siti Hasmah Mohd Ali: The Accidental Doctor. Eva Nava Wong
Tun Dr Siti Hasmah Mohd Ali
The Accidental Doctor
Tun Dr Siti Hasmah Mohd Ali
The Accidental Doctor
words by
Eva Wong Nava
with June Ho
Pictures by
Debasmita
Dasgupta
Published by
WS Education, an imprint of
World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
5 Toh Tuck Link, Singapore 596224
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National Library Board, Singapore Cataloguing in Publication Data
Name(s): Wong Nava, Eva. | Ho, June, author. | Dasgupta, Debasmita, illustrator.
Title: Tun Dr Siti Hasmah Mohd Ali : the accidental doctor / words by Eva Wong Nava with June Ho ;
pictures by Debasmita Dasgupta.
Other title(s): Women who shaped Asia ; 1.
Description: Singapore : WS Education, [2021]
Identifier(s): OCN 1154424907 | ISBN 978-981-122-111-8 (hardcover) | ISBN 978-981-122-158-3 (paperback)
Subject(s): LCSH: Siti Hasmah Mohd. Ali--Juvenile literature. | Physicians--Malaysia--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Classification: DDC 610.92--dc23
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
Words/Text copyright © Eva Wong Nava & June Ho
Illustrations copyright © Debasmita Dasgupta
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To my daughters, Sophie and Raffaella, who continue to remind me why sheroes are important.
To my mum, whose sheroic story remains my inspiration ~ Eva
To my Mummy who was my very first shero and my sister, Ching Han,
who has continued the legacy ~ June
To my grandmother, Rani Sengupta — my inspiration, my shero ~ Debasmita
A cool breeze rustled through the open fields. Kites were flying high.
Hasmah’s eyes stayed glued to the one that she and her brothers had made with bamboo, rice paper, and strings coated in sticky rice and crushed glass.
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With her heart in her throat, her eyes followed their layang-layang in the sky.
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Clip! Glass strings cut one kite after another.
Swoosh! Hasmah watched as their kite came tumbling down. Time to go home to make another.
The fun would begin again soon!
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When the wind was still, Hasmah and her brothers played rough and tumble games. One of their favourites was to catch
labah-labah. Snap!
They trapped spiders in matchboxes, and watched as black spiders battled with one another. The biggest spider was always the winner.
Hasmah was an adventurous tomboy. Yet she loved reading and writing.
Being a doctor was far from her mind when she was young.
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When Hasmah was young,
she saw the Union Jack hoisted high. Her country, Malaya, was ruled by King George V of England.
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Many people were poor and illiterate under British rule.
Education for girls was not a priority when Hasmah was born.
But her parents sent her to school. At school, she studied English, Science, and Maths. She loved reading the most. Being a doctor was far from her mind when she was at school.
When Hasmah was a teenager, the Second World War started. The Japanese invaded Malaya and Hasmah’s idyllic days ended.
During this time, Hasmah’s mother fell ill. Nobody knew what was wrong, not even the family doctor.
Hasmah’s heart squeezed as her mother suffered. She felt anxious because nobody knew what to do.
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