This Working Life with Dr Mireia Roca Cabau: ‘I love surgery and building things, so I jumped at chance to set up a clinic’

I grew up in Lleida, a small city near Barcelona, which is where I studied medicine. My dad is an ophthalmologist, so I saw it at home. When I was 16 a friend of his had a charity project in Senegal – Fundacio Ferreruela-Sanfeliu – carrying out cataract surgery and I went out there to work as a scrub nurse and loved it.