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Agnes Musikavanhu
Woman returns to Wales hospital where career started for 80th birthday: ‘I was the first black nurse to come here from Rhodesia’
A woman celebrated her 80th birthday by revisiting the hospital where she began her nursing career nearly 60 years ago. Agnes Musikavanhu, one of the first overseas nurses to help address staffing shortages in Swansea Bay in 1967, left Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) alone at 22 to train at Morriston Hospital. Returning decades later, she found…
