[2] She was the daughter of Clarence Carmichael Abidh, headmaster of the Canadian Mission Indian school in Charlieville,[3]: 89 and member of the Legislative Council.
[6] There, she was the first student to complete the Junior Cambridge Certificate,[7] and later at Saint Joseph's Convent in Port of Spain.
[3]: 244–245 She specialised in public health after observing that she was primarily treating preventable diseases,[5] and was particularly active in efforts to eradicate hookworm infection.
She played a leading role in successful efforts to contain yellow fever outbreaks in Trinidad and Tobago in 1954 and 1979.
[1] In their book Post-Colonial Trinidad, British academics Colin and Gillian Clarke called Abidh "arguably [one of the two] most prominent Indian women professionals of their generation".