GEORGE TOWN: Cancer affected person Chelsea Cindion Dominic has been awarded a posthumous degree at Universiti Sains Malaysia’s 59th convocation right here following her passing in 2020
Her father Dominic Rayappan, 56, who obtained the scroll for his late daughter’s Mass Communications degree on Monday (Nay 30), stated this was a type of closure for the household as she had labored exhausting on the course.
“She managed to sit down for her last third-year examination and handed with good outcomes however she handed away from osteosarcoma (bone most cancers) at the age of 23 on April 6, 2020, earlier than she might sit for her last examination.
“My daughter was recognized with most cancers in 2011 however by no means let the illness maintain her again. She was lively in social work and took half in a lot of her college’s cocurricular actions.
“Because of her contributions, the Dean of the School of Communications awarded her a posthumous degree final 12 months however the convocation was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic,,” he stated when contacted.
Chelsea additionally beat the percentages in 2015 when she obtained 7As within the PMR regardless of lacking faculty for nearly a 12 months in Form Two when she was in SMK St George Balik Pulau.
She was amongst 6,706 graduates receiving numerous levels together with doctorates in philosophy and grasp’s (2,231 recipients), bachelor’s (4,425 recipients) and nursing diplomas (50 recipients).
Dominic stated he additionally has a 20-year-old daughter with Down Syndrome who misses her elder sister very a lot and would recurrently ask the place Chelsea was.
“In our house, we have now a nook to honour Chelsea and at instances, I see my youthful daughter talking. When I requested who she was speaking to, she would say Chelsea.
“I consider that Chelsea remains to be watching over her sister. Chelsea has appeared within the goals of her buddies and a lecturer too,” he added.
