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183:. She won a scholarship to her bachelor's degree in pharmacy at Lvov Medical School from 1962–67 and completed her Master's in the US. She was denied entry to Lesotho on the claims that she was trained to make bombs. Along with her other colleagues, she was a refugee in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. She served as an employee of a teaching hospital in Tanzania. She was invited to the country by the then Principal Secretary for Health, Thomas Thabane, who went on to become the Prime Minister of Lesotho. After returning in 1981, she worked in Lesotho Pharmaceutical Corporation.
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