Amina Abubakar Bello
Amina Abubakar Bello (born in 1973) is the First Lady of Niger State, Nigeria and an obstetrician, gynaecologist and human rights activist.
Quotes
edit- Growing up, I knew education was important and from an early age, I knew I had to do a profession, so that shaped how I ended up choosing what I chose.
- Then you are always advised not to decide what you want to do as a profession until you have done your house job, and ‘house job’ means you have to go through all the different departments in medicine. You do surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology. I enjoyed it and it occurred to me that this is where my calling was. And that was how I decided to specialise in obstetrics and gynaecology. The rest is history
- [2] Amina shares why she studies gynecology
- Women who shouldn’t die because of childbirth are dying simply because they have not had the care that they desire
- [3] Amina Talks about women who dies during childbirth.
- We have the rich culture of the Nupe people, we have our beautiful dancers and when you see the way they make their cultural clothes, very beautiful to behold. We have a rich history.
- [4] Amina speaks about her culture
- We need to differentiate between religion and our health. We cannot go to Church or Mosque for our pastors and imams to treat us for cancer. Yes, we can pray because it is only God that can cure us, but God has given us the tools that we need to use to get that cure.
