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MAN AND MACHINE: Dr Thiecouta Traore, founder of GKRT, with ‘Rose’, one of the newly-installed renal therapy machines in the new Port Alfred branch of the company Picture: ROB KNOWLES
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Making therapy easier for kidney patients

Born in Dakar, the capital of West Africa’s Senegal, Thiecouta Traore was destined to take up an occupation in the medical field, as both his parents were doctors – his mother an anesthesiologist and father a gynaecologist. “They tried to…

  • Rob Knowles
SAY IT LIKE WOODY: One of Hollywood’s best-loved actors, Tom Hanks, visited six-year-old Alexandra Taljard at the Evelina Children’s Hospital at Guys and St Thomas’s in the UK. With them is Alexandra’s mother, Lisa Taljard
ALEXANDRA TALJARD

Young Alexandra has stars in her eyes

Six-year-old kidney recipient, Alexandra Taljard, recently received a surprise visit from one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, Tom Hanks, while she was undergoing treatment at the Evelina Children’s Hospital at Guys and St Thomas’s in…

  • Rob Knowles