Lady Who Had Kidney Failure & Was Treated Abroad, Says She Wouldn’t Have Survived In Nigeria With Our Broken Health System

Nigerian lady named Sisan Dorsu has shared briefly how she was down with kidney failure and she met with Mitchell Obama who signed on her pillow, this motivated and inspired her to fulfill her dreams, she also expressed concern on how she wouldn’t have survived if she was treated in Nigeria with our broken health system.

Sharing her experience on LinkedIn, she wrote:

In 2009 as a patient at Childrens National in Washington D.C., I had the opportunity to personally meet First Lady Michelle Obama as she visited the hospital that Christmas.

I watched carefully as she signed my pillow “Dream Big Dreams”. Since that day, I’ve always reflected on how my fate of recovering from kidney failure might not have been so lucky if I was treated within our broken health systems back home in Nigeria.

Since that day, I’ve been on a mission to building an African continent where all children have access to systems allowing them to not just live and survive, but to also dream big dreams and achieve their full potential.

This weekend one of my big dreams came true as I was inducted into the 14th class of the Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance. I was reminded that an African proverb says if you want to go fast, go alone; But if you want to go far, go with others. Harambe means to come together. African entrepreneurs must continue to come together as we recognize that we cannot achieve African prosperity without working as one.

At Bretton Woods, I alongside 21 of my fellow Harambeans signed a dream on a piece of paper, the Harambe Declaration, making a promise to spend our lives building and unleashing the immense potential of our African people.

We signed this declaration in the Gold Room of the Mount Washington Hotel, the same room where 730 delegates from the United Nations signed agreements to establish the IBRD and the IMF back in 1944.

This young girl from Nigeria has always dreamt big dreams but never thought she’d someday find herself in such a room. Moments after I signed the declaration, I couldn’t hold back the emotion and tears signifying the weight of the responsibility I had committed to and the immense faith I had in fulfilling that dream on a piece of paper.

This is the end of the beginning. Harambeans are ordinary people doing extraordinary things and I challenge all young Africans to join us on this journey. The journey won’t be an easy one, but every step of the way we can look at each other and say Harambe on!

I leave you with these last words from our Harambe Decleration in hopes that they inspire and awaken your spirit as they have mine.

“We will check our road and the nature of our battle. Yet in the end, the Africa our generation desires can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is ours.”

Source: LinkedIn

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