Dr Ola Orekunrin Brown, Founder and CEO of Flying Doctors Nigeria, receives Silverbird 2017 Man of the Year Award under the Extraordinary Business Achievement Category, alongside Alhaji Samad Rabiu, Leo Stan Ekeh of Zinox Computers, Mr Biodun Shobanjo and Mr Deji Ali
In her acceptance speech, she said: “A few months ago, a young gentleman became critically unwell and the only centre with the capability to perform the operation he required was here in Lagos almost 20 hrs by road from the state he was. To make matters worse, he was on oxygen consuming about a cylinder of oxygen per hour. How do critically unwell patients get across Nigeria with air ambulance services because in the same way that Dangote doesn’t place a factory in every day just because every state needs cement, we can’t build specialist high tech medical centres in every state just because people require specialist healthcare. So. over the past decade, we have built one of the biggest indigenous air medical transportation services in West and Central Africa. Serving patients in urgent need of care from Liberia to Ghana to Mali to Burkina Faso to Congo and, of course, our home Nigeria.
“I would like to thank my amazing team for working through the many nights making this happen.
“And I would like to thank the team at Silverbird for recognising the lifesaving work we have been doing for almost a decade”
