Near the end of April last year, shortly after she tested positive for COVID-19, Lolita Rebeiro was diagnosed with cancer.
Rebeiro, 45, Chief Medex, Regional Health Services, Ministry of Health, was treated locally and completed treatment in Suriname at the start of last December. “I haven’t been cleared as yet by the doctors. However, it’s back to work for me,” Rebeiro told Stabroek Weekend in an interview.
Rebeiro, who has spent six years as Chief Medex, had initially dreamed of becoming a nurse and working at the Kumaka District Hospital in her home village of Santa Rosa in the Moruca Sub-Region. It was a dream she realised and then some.
