The year 2014
was a year that Adaora Okoli will never forget any time soon. It was the year
that changed her life forever. A patient suffering from Ebola has checked into
the hospital where she was working and in the process of treating the patient,
she got infected with the deadly disease.
Adaora Okoli
did not know if she would live or die. “You don’t know if it’s going to end
with your death,” she said.
But as luck
will have it, she survived.
Ever since
the unexpected turn of thing she has dedicated her life to the research
treatment, and prevention of future epidemics, studying at the Tulane School of
Public Health and Tropical Medicine.
On Thursday,
she was named as one of Bill Gates‘ 5 “Heroes in the Field.”
Dr Adaora
Okoli was also featured on TIME magazine, where she shared her story to the
world.
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