A SUPER WOMAN!!!!

OLA OREKUNRIN: FOUNDER OF THE FIRST AIR AMBULANCE IN THE WHOLE OF WEST AFRICA

Have you ever felt a sharp pain due to a particular circumstance that hurt you so badly? What did you do afterwards? Meet the 21 year old Nigerian lady who turned her bitterness into a call to save mankind.

Olamide Orekunrin, a 21 year old young Lady who was born in London and raised in a foster home. At 21 years, she had graduated from Hull York Medical school as a qualified Trauma doctor. She was then awarded the MEXT Japanese Government Scholarship and moved to Japan to conduct research in the field of regenerative medicine. Ola is also a helicopter pilot trainee.

When Ola was 21, her 12 years old sister visited Nigeria with some relatives and needed urgent health care, being a sickle cell anaemia sufferer. The nearest hospitals could not give her the help that she needed at that point, so an air ambulance was needed to transport her to a more suitable healthcare facility. In Ola’s words,  "The nearest one at the time was in South Africa. "They had a 12-hour activation time so by the time they were ready to activate, my sister was dead.

Motivated by the tragic death of her sister, the young doctor decided to leave behind a high-flying job in the UK to take to the Nigerian skies and address the vital issue of urgent healthcare in Africa's most populous country. A pioneering entrepreneur with an eye for opportunity, Orekunrin set up Flying Doctors Nigeria, the first air ambulance service in West Africa.

Looking ahead, Orekunrin says her goal is to continue improving access to treatment while focusing on the pre-hospital and in-hospital management of injuries. She says that whilst much attention and funding is directed toward infectious diseases, Africa is also facing a big problem treating physical injuries and wounds.

Currently in its fifth year, the Lagos-based company has so far airlifted about 1000 patients, using a fleet of planes and helicopters to rapidly move injured workers and critically ill people from remote areas to hospitals.

What conditions around hurts you the most? Stop lamenting and start acting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE LADY WHO IDENTIFIED HER QUESTION AT 9

Meet the World Youngest Self made Female Billionaire

ELIZABETH HOLMES with a net worth of $4.6 billion

Ever heard of Theranos????? Well, I never heard until I read, and what’s fascinating is that its founded by a young female Stanford drop out, yeah! female drop out (what is it with all these drop outs, they seem to do better #justthinkingoutloud ). Theranos is an invention that enables the collection of blood samples without the use of big syringes. With Theranos, a drop is all you need.


Her name is Elizabeth Holmes. At the age of 9, Holmes wrote a letter to her father: "What I really want out of life is to discover something new, something that mankind didn't know was possible to do.", and in 2003, at the age of 19, she got into Stanford University to study Chemical Engineering. In her freshman year, she was named one of the President’s Scholars, and was given a stipend of $3000 to pursue a research project and that was the beginning of her breakthrough.

Within a year she had filed a patent application for "Medical device for analyte monitoring and drug delivery," a wearable device that monitored patients' blood and administrated medicine. As a sophomore, Holmes went to one of her professors, Channing Robertson, and told him: "Let's start a company." With his blessing, she founded Real-Time Cures, later changing the company's name to Theranos (a word coined from therapy and diagnosis). She dropped out of Stanford a semester later, working on Theranos in the basement of a college house full time. Professor Robertson served as a director of the company.

Holmes, holding up the her invention. Theranos

Today, Theranos is a $9 billion biotech company that has a new approach to blood testing with the goal is to make clinical testing cheaper and faster.

Holmes doesn't own a TV and states she works every day from the time she wakes up until she goes to sleep. She says that "What matters is how well we do in trying to make people's lives better. That's why I'm doing this. That's why I work the way that I work. And that's why I love what I'm doing so much." 

What matters the most is that we discover why we were sent here. Everyone is an answer to a particular question. How well are you working to get your own question answered?

The great Elizabeth Holmes