Ada Priscilla Nzimiro was a trained medical doctor with family roots in Oguta, present-day Imo State. She attended the University of Glasgow and earned her Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery in 1950. She was the first woman from Igboland to graduate as a medical doctor.
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Ada Priscilla Nzimiro was a trained medical doctor with family roots in Oguta, present-day Imo State. She attended the University of Glasgow and earned her Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery in 1950. She was the first woman from Igboland to graduate as a medical doctor. Nzimiro is said to have died an unnatural death a year after she graduated.
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Doctors
Type
Doctor
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1923 to 1951 · aged 27
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