Name: Dr ola Orekunrin
Nationality: Nigerian.
Field: founder flying doctors
Nigeria
Born: 1986
Spouse: David Brown (married
2016)
Yes flying Doctors, not the Nigerian flying queens o ( winchy winchy lol)
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The award winning Dr. Ola Orekunrin is a medical doctor, helicopter pilot and the healthcare entrepreneur founder of Flying Doctors Nigeria, West Africa’s first Air Ambulance Service. She's dedicated to bringing trauma care to the most remote parts of Western Africa and her company, an air ambulance service based in Lagos, is doing just that. She was motivated to start the company after her younger sister tragically died whilst traveling in Nigeria as a consequence of their being no medical air service available to transport her to hospital. Ola graduated as a medical doctor from the University Of York in the UK and is a member of the American Academy of Aesthetic Medicine.
Ola currently resides in Lagos, Nigeria where she is considered a national expert of disaster medicine and pre-hospital care. Her company has been featured on various local TV and radio stations as well as the BBC and CNN.
She was originally born in London and grew up in a foster home with her sister in the small seaside town of Lowestoft in the south-east of England. With a passion for medicine, she studied at the University of York in the UK, graduating at the incredibly young age of 21 as a qualified doctor. Her meteoric rise in the field of medical studies took her to Japan as a result of her being awarded the MEXT Japanese Government Scholarship. There, she conducted clinic research in the field of regenerative medicine at the Jikei University Hospital.
However, the catalyst for a major life and career decision came when her sister became very, very ill on holiday whilst staying with relatives in Nigeria. The local hospital was unable to manage her sickle cell anemia condition, and as a result, Ola and her family started to search for an air ambulance so that she could be safely transported to a suitable medical facility in the country. The tragedy for the family was that there were no air ambulances to be found, even though the search took them from Nigeria, to Ghana, Sierra Leone and Cameroon, and across West Africa. The only one to be found was in South Africa, 5 hours away, but by the time the logistics had been arranged, Ola’s sister had died of her condition....
Dr. Ola has since then received awards from different Nigerian and international organisations, given public speeches on entrepreneurship, and extraordinary business achievement.
Awards including the 2013 young global leader by the world economic forum, Oprah magazine named Ola in their 2014 power list.
With the flying doctors being the number one emergency air ambulance in West Africa.
“Here’s to the women who will change the narrative of African women: May we know them, may we be them, may we raise them.” Dr ola Orekunrin.
Making such difference and
Coiled from: www.lionesses of Africa
Edited by Bluetalez
WOW!!! Her personality is quite one to encourage
ReplyDeleteWe need more extraordinary ladies like her
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The world would have been better
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