Born on 12 July 1926 in Klang to a civil servant, she attended medical school in Singapore where she met her future husband cum prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad. To study medicine for a lady, in those days were rare indeed and she made it.
She too made history apart of being the wife of Tun Mahathir Mohamad, In 1965, she became the first woman appointed as a medical officer in the Maternal and Child Health Department, and in 1974, she became the first woman appointed as a State Maternal and Child Health Officer.
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