‘I lived in a mud hut with no electricity or running water with three others’
Simon Collins, director and owner, Travel Health Clinic In conversation with Mary McCarthy
Simon Collins and Kate Carberry of Travel Health Clinic. Photo: Rose Bainbridge
Mary McCarthy
Career path Band Aid happened when I was in fifth year and the discussion of famine made me want to work overseas; though I didn’t act on this instinct until I was 30.
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