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= Dr Mishka Singh = Mishka Singh (born March 7, 1988) is an artist, writer and family practitioner.

Early life and education
Born in La Mercy,Kwa Zulu Natal South Africa. Singh is of mostly Indian descent although was born in South Africa. She completed her schooling in Westville, winning the KPMG award for accounting in Grade 12, 2005. Despite the accounting award, much to the delight of her parents and especially her mother, she chose to go to the Nelson Mandela School of Medicine at the University of Kwa Zulu Natal where she completed her MBChB in 2010. She further completed a Diploma in Obstetrics at the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa in 2014 whilst living in Cape Town. To reinforce her medical degree when she moved to Canada, she challenged the College of Family Physicians of Canada examination achieving her CCFP.

Personal Life
Dr Singh is from Durban Westville, South Africa. She is married to Grant Neil Van Hal a law partner at a leading Lethbridge law firm, MMH Lawyers LLP and the author of a paper the Legal Obstacles to the Development of Geothermal Energy in Alberta published with the Canadian Institute of Resources Law. She is the daughter of Dr Shobana Mandraj Singh, former director of education in Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa and Prashan Singh, current principle at AYS Memorial school and former principle of Nelson Mandela's alumni, Ohlange High school. She has two younger brothers, Kapish Singh and Yashtar Singh.

Career
Singh worked as a research assistant doing PCR testing on HIV samples at the Doris Duke Medical Research Institute of South Africa between the years 2007-2010.

Dr Singh completed her internship at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, Western Cape from 2011 to 2012. She served her community service year at the Khayelitsha district hospital doing obstetrics and the New Somerset hospital doing emergency medicine in 2013. She started her first year of independent practice at the Green point clinic where she served the public health sector as a general practitioner.

In 2015, she moved to Alberta, Canada, living first in Medicine hat where she did her practice assessment at the Crescent Heights Clinic. She then moved to Lethbridge, the city she had chosen to practice in where she worked at the Legacy Medical Clinic. She moved to Cambpell Clinic South in 2018 and became a partner at the clinic in 2019.

Singh started her career as an artist in 2005 whilst in medical school and continued painting when she moved to Canada. She has currently sold six pieces. She published her first novel in 2020, titled, The Wanderer - Journey of 5000 miles. She is working on her second novel on her medical escapades.



Volunteering
Singh has volunteered in soup kitchens at the Lethbridge soup kitchen as well as evenings at the medical oasis at Streets Alive. She was on the board of the Young Professional Association of Lethbridge from 2017-2019 and was a member of Urban Spirits Rotary Club from 2018-2019. She is now a board member of the Boys and Girls Club of Lethbridge.