The Art of Presence with painter and oncologist Dr. Prinitha Pillay

Facilitated by

Dr Prinitha Pillay

Throughout my time as a medical doctor and in particular with Doctors Without Borders, I have been challenged to work at all levels of health care delivery advocating for patients from a micro (bedside) to macro (global health) level. My work made me feel part of the world and I realised bearing witness to patients ills and speaking out for somebody who cannot, is important to me. After graduating with a BSc Hons. in Molecular Biology in 1996 at University of Witwatersrand, I pursued a career in medicine. After graduating as a doctor in 2003, I joined Doctors Without Borders, which provided my first taste of medical humanitarian action and over the next 10 years worked in many different and dire settings from Lesotho, South and North Sudan, India, Sierra Leone, Libya and in both urban and rural South Africa. I served as President of Doctors Without Borders in South Africa and part of the organisations governance internationally.