Summary
LOOK at Alia Gilani's mobile phone and the list of aunties and uncles will take your breath away. They are not her blood relations, but a measure of the trust that she has built up in Glasgow's South Asian community.
"It's a mark of respect to call older people in our community 'auntie' or 'uncle' - it would be considered rude to refer to them by just their first name," explains Gilani.See the full content of this document
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A Healthy Minority
It's a minor point but an indication of the wider cultural differences which make Gilani's job as a NHS health inequalities pharmacist so essential. Before she came along the post did not exist, and she believes she may still be the only one of her kind in the UK - a situation she hopes to rectify.
"My aim is to ...See the full content of this document
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