When he surfaced, he’d covered a distance of 114m and
broken the South African freediving record. His feat was
made extra special by the fact that he’d recovered from
tuberculosis (TB) just five years earlier. He’d been infected
with the disease in 2007 when he was a medical student
completing his community service.
His experience brought home the risk public health
professionals work under and inspired him to start TB
Proof, an advocacy group, with fellow doctors, one of
whom, Dr Dalene von Delft, survived multidrug-resistant
TB. The group works to “proof ” healthcare workers
against the risk of infection at the work place.