Dr Ejemeh Okojie, a Nigerian pediatrician who was based in the United States of America is dead.
She died recently after battling with breast cancer for eight years.
Dr. Ejemeh Okojie
According to her mother, Elizabeth Oriaifo, Ejemeh achieved everything so fast but unfortunately had to leave the world so fast.
During the funeral service held on Saturday July 18, 2015 at Jesus House Baltimore (JHB), Maryland (USA) the husband, Dr Godwin Okojie said Ejemeh blessed everyone she met with her smiles and often ensured that she made positive impact before leaving that person.
From a deep emotional but calm voice, Godwin said his wife lived an exemplary life with a fantastic and beautiful heart ”In all ramifications, no matter where you met her, she was ready to do a medical consult right there and then give you prescription.” he said.
Many believed Ejemeh left an indelible legacy as “the people’s doctor” both to the old and the young.
To buttress Godwin’s assertions, a source revealed to our correspondent that in the hallways of JHB where the late pediatrician attended church services, she was constantly contacted for medical consultations and never collected a penny.
In another biographical eulogy, Ejemeh was said to have served selflessly until she died on Sunday, July 5, 2015 at age 46.
The late doctor who joined her husband in the US in 1993 was a practicing pediatrician at Harbor Hospital.
However, she later became the CEO and Medical Director of her own practice in Woodlawn, Maryland (USA) where she was referred to as ‘the best baby doctor in the world‘.
In an exhortation, the JHB pastor, Tola Odutola urged Ejemeh’s family members and friends to emulate the steps she took while on earth. The pastor challenged other medical doctors in the church who could not do the humanitarian services which Ejemeh did to continue from where she stopped.
He called on everyone to support the foundation which Ejemeh left behind to give scholarships to female Nigerians in the US and other Nigerians who intend to study medicine.
Ejemeh whose father, younger brother and husband are also medical doctors started her medical career at the University of Benin and got the MBBS degree in 1990 at the age of 21
Ejemeh who was survived by three girls, in a secret poem she had written few days before her demise admonished saying “fill not your hearts with pain and sorrow but remember me in every tomorrow”
In what seemed like an emotional stanza in the dirge, she said in the poem that“although my leaving causes pain and grief, my going has eased my hurt and given me relief; so dry your tears and remember me not as I am now but as I used to be”
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