How India’s first transgender doctor to head a Covid-19 vaccination centre inspires, one dose at a time

When Dr Aqsa Shaikh announced on Twitter last week that she had been appointed to head a Covid-19 vaccination centre in New Delhi, her timeline was inundated with hundreds of congratulatory messages. Most notably, the 38-year-old was lauded for being the first and only transgender woman in India to have been given such a position.As a senior faculty member at the Hamdard Institute of Medical Science and Research, she was already heavily involved in the battle against the pandemic and a natural…

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