Fiji’s first woman doctor
IT was a year to celebrate for Kanta Madovji. It was the year 1968, and Ms Madovji, a daughter of Lautoka merchant had just graduated as a doctor — the first Fijian of Indian descent woman to do so. The Fiji Times reported that she was only 27 when she graduated.
Ms Madovji passed her final examinations for the degree of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery at the University of the Otago.
Born at Lautoka in 1933, she received her primary education at the Jasper Williams Girls’ School and later attended the Natabua Secondary School.
Ms Madovji went to New
Zealand in 1951 for further studies, and after spending two years at the Auckland Girls’ Grammar School, she enrolled at Auckland University as a science student. Two years later, she went to Otago University at Dunedin as a medical student and she completed her course in 1968.
Ms Madovji has an outstanding academic record at the schools and colleges she has attended. She proposed to work in a hospital in New Zealand before coming to Fiji to practise.
Ms Madovji went to New Zealand in 1951 for further studies, and after spending two years at the Auckland Girls’ Grammar School, she enrolled at Auckland University as a science student.
– The Fiji Times