About Mercy Sadka
Lived 1923 – 2001 (aged 77). Mercy Sadka was a neurologist.
Marie Sadka (22 July 1923 – 28 January 2001) was a Singapore-born neurologist who spent most of her career in Western Australia. Better known as Mercy Sadka, she was Australia's first female neurologist.
Early life and education Sadka was born in Singapore on 22 July 1923. She was the second daughter of Sassoon Samuel Sadka and his wife, Sarah who were of Jewish heritage. Her older sister Emily Sadka (1920–1968) was an historian. She educated at Raffles Girls School and later Cheltenham Ladies College in England. She also opened the Stroke Rehabilitation Unit in the Shenton Park Annex of RPH.
Sadka retired in 1988. She died on 28 January 2001.
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