Kofoworola Abeni Pratt

Cif, Hon, FRCN Kofoworola Abeni Pratt (An haife ta a shekarar 1915 - ta mutu a ranar 18 ga watan Yunin 1992) 'Yar Nijeriya ce kuma ma’aikaciyar kiwon lafiya, ita ce baƙar fata ta farko da ta fara aiki a Hukumar Kiwon Lafiya ta Biritaniya. Ta zama mataimakiyar shugaban ƙasar da majalisar ƙasa da ƙasa Nurses da farko baki Chief Nursing Officer of Nigeria, aiki a ma'aikatar Lafiya. 

Pratt, diyar Augustus Alfred Scott da Elizabeth Omowumi (née Johnson), Women's Research and Documentation Centre Newsletter, collected vols 1 and 2, University of Ibadan Institute of African Studies, 1987, p. 9 sun yi karatu a makarantar sakandaren St John da Lagos CMS Girls 'Grammar School, Nigerian Women Annual: Who's Who, Gito & Associates, 1990, p. 7 sannan ta yi karatun zama malama a United Missionary College da ke Ibadan, bayan mahaifinta ya karya mata gwiwa daga burinta na zama mai jinya.  Daga 1936 zuwa 1940 ta yi koyarwa a makarantar 'yan mata ta Mishan Church Church a Najeriya. Ta auri wani likita dan Nijeriya mai magani, Dokta Olu Pratt, wanda daga baya ya samu cancantar likitancin Ingila a asibitin St Bartholomew, London. 

Bayan ta koma Ingila a 1946, Pratt ta karanci aikin jinya a makarantar Nightingale a asibitin St Thomas, da ke Landan. A lokacin da take a asibitin St Thomas, Pratt ya fuskanci wariyar launin fata, lokacin da mara lafiya ya ki jinyar wata baƙuwar jinya. Pratt ta ci jarabawarta ta farko a 1948 da kuma wasan karshe a 1949, inda ta cancanci zama Nurse da ke Rijista a shekarar 1950.  Baƙon abu ne ga matar aure da za a ba ta izinin kula da jinya a wancan lokacin, kuma Pratt ita ce kuma baƙar fata ta farko da ta fara ba da aikin likita ga NHS. A lokacin da take Landan, ta kasance mai aiki a Kungiyar Hadin Kan Dalibai na Afirka ta Yamma,  ƙungiyar ɗalibai daga ƙasashe daban-daban na Yammacin Afirka waɗanda ke karatu a Kingdomasar Ingila, wanda kuma, a cikin 1942, ta nemi independenceancin ofancin Burtaniya Africanasashen Yammacin Afirka. 

Pratt ta dawo gida Najeriya a shekarar 1954, bayan ya kwashe shekaru 4 yana aiki a hukumar ta NHS. Kodayake tun farko ba a ba ta mukamin a matsayin 'yar uwa ba - mukami ne kawai da aka bude a lokacin ga bakin haure' yan Biritaniya  - an nada ta Matron na Asibitin Kwalejin Jami'a da ke Ibadan a cikin shekaru goma. Pratt shi ne dan Najeriya na farko da ya rike wannan mukamin.  Ta kirkiro makarantar koyon aikin jinya a Jami'ar Ibadan a shekarar 1965. Pratt ya kuma kafa kuma jagora na Professionalungiyar Professionalwararrun ofwararrun Ma'aikatan Jinya a Nijeriya kuma shi ne wanda ya kafa kuma ya kasance edita a cikin jaridar ta Nigerian Nurse.  

Pratt ta kasance babban jami’in kula da jinya a Ma’aikatar Lafiya ta Tarayya a Najeriya sannan ya nada Kwamishinan Lafiya na Legas a cikin shekarun 1970s.   A cikin 1971, Pratt ya zama Shugaban Majalisar ofungiyoyin Mata ta Nationalasa a Nijeriya. 

A shekarar 1973 ne Kwamitin Kasa da Kasa na Red Cross ya ba ta lambar yabo ta Florence Nightingale. Bayanin ya bayyana ta a matsayin: 

Shugaban kungiyar Red Cross ta Najeriya, Sir Adetokunbo Ademola ne ya ba ta lambar yabon, a ranar 21 ga Disamba 1973.  A shekarar 1975, an ba ta lambar sarauta - ta Iya Ile Agbo ta Isheri - domin yi wa kasa hidima.   A shekarar 1979 aka sanya ta a matsayin abokiyar girmamawa ta Royal College of Nursing . 

Mutuwa
Ta mutu a 18 ga Yuni 1992.

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