Angela Ochu-Baiye is busting myths about blood donation in Nigeria on the radio and developing a mobile platform to match donors to patients. Nigeria’s blood shortage nearly cost Angela Ochu-Baiye her life. Diagnosed with a ruptured ovarian cyst and an ectopic pregnancy in 2008, she was scheduled for an emergency surgery. She urgently needed a blood transfusion, but her hospital had just one unit — and it had expired. She couldn’t find a donor match within close proximity. For six days, she managed to survive as the doctors managed her condition. “Many women were not fortunate like me, but I believe God spared me so I could champion a great cause to ensure other women wouldn’t lose their lives from an unavailability of blood in emergency situations,” she says. |