The Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Center for Women and Development has profiled Ms. Margaret Mojisola Ayorinde as an exceptional COVID-19 Heroine.
According to the EJS center, Ms. Ayorinde is an accomplished medical professional among the frontline Health Care Workers who have worked tirelessly to fight COVID-19.
The Nigerian medical practitioner who has consistently made meaningful contributions to the field of nursing across West Africa over the span of her two-decade career, is currently the Assistant Director for Nursing Services and Matron in charge of the Isolation Ward, Infectious Diseases Unit, at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) in Nigeria.
Working directly with the Lagos State COVID-19 response team, she served at the frontlines, training health care workers and keeping them up to date on COVID-19 protection and prevention measures, monitoring infectious disease control procedures in the hospital and sharing best practices in patient care.
She has worked in countries including Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea, and has played important role in helping to treat and stop the spread of diseases including COVID-19, Lassa Fever, and Ebola.
Ms. Ayorinde has also worked with both the Nigeria Center for Disease Control and the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) to help respond to COVID-19 and organize relief efforts.
She is an accomplished and dedicated health care professional, who is equally admired for her bedside manner-looking after individual patients, connecting with their families, and providing spiritual and emotional comfort and strength, along with superb nursing care.
Meanwhile, the former President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf acknowledged the report on her Twitter page, noting that Ms. Ayorinde’s work exemplifies the selfless and tireless efforts of African Women working on the frontlines in the fight against COVID-19.
The @EJSCenter has profiled another exceptional COVID-19 Heroine, whose work exemplifies the selfless and tireless efforts of African women working on the frontlines in the fight against #COVID19. https://t.co/O1FuGLTLlr
— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (@MaEllenSirleaf) November 30, 2020
