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Irene Ighodaro
Irene Ighodaro (16 May 1916 – 29 November 1995) was a Sierra Leonean physician and social reformer. She was president of the Young Women's Christian Association of Nigeria. She was also the first President of the Medical Association of Nigerian Women. She was notable for being one of the first female physicians in West Africa.
==Life==
Ighodaro was born Irene Elizabeth Beatrice Wellesley-Cole in Freetown, Sierra Leone, one of seven children of engineer Wilfred Wellesley-Cole. Her elder brother was physician Robert Wellesley-Cole. She attended the Government Model School and graduated from the Annie Walsh Memorial School. She decided to become a physician after nursing her mother through a terminal illness. She received her M.B.B.S. from the University of Durham in England. She later married Samuel Ighodaro of Benin City with whom she had five children. They moved to Nigeria, where he become a judge on the High Court of Midwestern Nigeria.
Ighodaro maintained a private medical practice and was a member of a number of western Nigerian medical advisory committees. She consulted the World Health Organization on child and maternal health and authored the book ''Baby's First Year''. She also chaired the University of Benin Teaching Hospital's board of management and was a member of the YWCA World Executive Committee.〔 She was made a Member of the British Empire (MBE) in 1958.〔
Ighodaro died on 29 November 1995.〔
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