Hilana Sedarous

Dr Hilana Sedarous(1904-1998) is the first Egyptian female doctor. Born in Tanta Egypt

After primary school she went to study at Sannia school in Cairo and after to the College of Teachers...
At the end of the second year in college she was sent to London in 1922 to study in mathematics, with Zeinab Kamel Hassan they considered to be the first to study in England.
She went to study medicine with other five Egyptian students.
She qualified as a doctor in 1930 and returned to Egypt to work in Kitchener hospital in Cairo to become the first female Egyptian doctor ever.
She opened a private clinic specialize in obstetric and gynaecology, and she carried her surgical procedures at the Coptic hospital in Cairo.
she continued to work till she reached 70 years old
she retired and turned to writing and translating stories for children.

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