Beautiful Nigerian Lady Becomes Youngest Doctor In England At Age 21

Beauty and brains! Ola Orekunrin, now 30yrs old from Ilawe-Ekiti in Ekiti State, Nigeria, was born, raised and trained in the UK, where she graduated as one of the youngest medical doctors in England. She is also a trainee helicopter pilot.

While she was studying to become a doctor in the UK, her younger sister fell seriously ill while traveling in Nigeria. The 12-year-old girl, who’d gone to Nigeria on holiday with relatives, needed urgent care, but the nearest hospital couldn’t deal with her condition.

Orekunrin and her family immediately began looking for an air ambulance service to rapidly transport the girl, a sickle cell anemia sufferer, to a more suitable healthcare facility. They searched all across West Africa but were stunned to find out there were none in the whole region.

“The nearest one at the time was in South Africa,” remembers Orekunrin. “They had a 12-hour activation time so by the time they were ready to activate, my sister was dead".

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