Updated: April 7 2021, 7.43pm From helping launch global groundbreaking medicines to administering the groundbreaking COVID-19 vaccines, life has gone full circle for Mary Ballantyne.
Now she’s urging people to “roll up their sleeve” and not be reticent about getting their vaccine.
Mary, from Forfar, returned to work as a registered nurse with the NHS last year in the fight against COVID-19 and is currently working in NHS Tayside’s Immunisation Team.
The move sees the 59–year–old returning to her roots. She brings with her an impressive list of achievements from her professional career, which she feels has put her in the right place at the right time to help and reassure others.
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DUNDEE Science Centre and women scientists from Dundee University are teaming up to encourage girls and young women into STEM subjects – science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. As part of Dundee Women’s Festival this weekend, a range of activities will be held to promote the subjects to younger children. The initiative was launched yesterday – International Women’s Day – and will see a range of activities available through the science centre’s online home learning programme for the rest of this month. Young people will learn how to extract DNA from strawberries and bananas, make invisible ink messages with milk and reveal them using Irn Bru.