Flying Doctors
飞行医生
Dr. Ola Orekunrin is a British-Nigerian doctor.
奥拉·奥勒昆林博士是一名英籍尼日利亚医生。
She went to college to study medicine when she was just fifteen years old.
她十五岁时就上大学学医了。
When she was twenty-one, she became the youngest doctor in England.
21岁时,她成了英国最年轻的医生。
When she was still a student, something very sad happened.
当她还是个学生的时候,发生了一件非常悲伤的事情。
Her twelve-year-old sister was visiting family in Nigeria. She became very sick and she needed special medicine.
她12岁的妹妹正在尼日利亚探亲。随后她染上了重病,需要特殊的药物。
The roads are not very good in Nigeria, and an ambulance couldn't reach her. She had to get to a hospital very quickly.
尼日利亚的道路情况不是很好,救护车也无法到达她的身边。她必须尽快去医院。
Ola tried to find a "flying doctor" service for her sister.
奥拉想要为她的妹妹找到一个“飞行医生”服务。
"Flying doctors" use helicopters or planes to visit sick people and take them to the hospital.
“飞行医生”是指用直升机或飞机去看病人,并把他们送到医院。
But there was no flying doctor service in West Africa. Ola's sister died because she didn't get to the hospital quickly enough.
但是西非没有飞行医生服务。奥拉的妹妹也因为没能及时送到医院而死。
After her sister's death, Ola wanted to help other sick people in Nigeria.
在妹妹去世后,奥拉想要帮助尼日利亚的其他病人。
She left the UK and moved to Nigeria where she started a flying doctor service for West Africa.
她离开了英国,搬到了尼日利亚,在那里她开始为西非提供飞行医生服务。
It's called Flying Doctors Nigeria. They have twenty planes and helicopters and more than forty doctors.
该服务被称为尼日利亚飞行医生。他们共有20架飞机和直升机,还有40多名医生。
Today, if you have to go to the hospital quickly in Nigeria, you can call Ola's flying doctor service.
今天,如果你在尼日利亚需要赶紧去医院,你可以打电话给奥拉的飞行医生服务。
They have helped hundreds of patients in West Africa.
他们已经帮助到了西非的数百名病人。