Ola orekunrin biography of donald
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So much has happened in her life that you would not believe she is just 26 years old. Hers is synonymous with nyhet, success and excellence.
It started with a resignation from a high-flying job in England, and relocation to Nigeria. So determined to make a difference in medical practice, Dr Ola Orekunrin decided to set up, The flying doctors, the first air ambulance service in West Africa.
Her journey to setting up such a capital intensive and delicate business was prompted bygd a death—her younger sister died of sickle fängelse anaemia.
“She was always in and out of hospitals but eventually died for lack of the availability of air ambulance. This more or less propelled my interest in medicin because inom really wanted to man a difference in the same way doctors had done to her. Setting up the company was a direkt result of my fascination for helicopters, trauma medicin, motor accident kinematics and pre-hospital medicin. I knew it was something that I had the skills and experie
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Dr. Ola Orekunrin: Winning the Wellness Race
Dr. Ola Orekunrin is a British-Nigerian medical doctor, healthcare entrepreneur and founder of the Flying Doctors Healthcare Investment Group and Director Greentree Investment Company. In this piece, Maduabuchi Ubani writes about the entrepreneur’s wellness practices which should act as a guide for people who are intentional about staying healthy, even at old age
It’s not every time you see successful entrepreneurs in Nigeria who are willing to share their business journey or even bring to limelight the wellness practices that have worked for them over the years.
So when I got the invitation to join a webinar where Dr. Ola Orekunrin, a healthcare entrepreneur and founder of the Flying Doctors Healthcare Investment Group and Director Greentree Investment Company, was scheduled to share her wellness blueprint, I just knew it wasn’t going to be a waste of my time.
In fact, I saw it as an opportunity to add a thing or two into my know
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The flying doctor: Fellows Friday with Ola Orekunrin
Fueled by personal conviction and in response to family tragedy, emergency physician Ola Orekunrin one of the UKs youngest qualifying doctors takes to the skies to provide West Africa with its first air ambulance service.
How did you end up running an air ambulance in Nigeria?
Ive been very interested in emergency trauma medicine since the beginning of medical school. And I love the fact that all over the United Kingdom, where I grew up, there are air ambulance services I think about 20 in all that serve rural communities as well as urban communities, making sure that people get to hospital within the right time frame. In our tiny town, Lowestoft, we dont even have a hospital. The nearest one is Norwich. It takes about 45 minutes to get a hospital by road, but by air it takes 5 to 10 minutes.
When my sister became very, very ill on holiday with relatives in Nigeria, the hospital was unable to manag