“Everyone sympathised, helped, and hoped for the recovery of this Nigerian medical graduate, 23-year-old Nnani Adaobi Marian, but ..
It happened just days before she was due to graduate from Kharkiv National Medical University in Ukraine, and she has been taken out by a Russian airstrike on the Ukrainian city.
The city itself has been under the barrage of Russian attacks and now, Marian has been caught in the cross fire.
The tragedy is coming at a time she was about to face a new and promising phase of her life, having successfully completed her medical studies.
“As a result of enemy shelling, Nnani Adaobi Marian was seriously injured. Doctors fought for her life until the last moment: first in Kharkiv, and later in Germany.
“Everyone sympathised, helped, and hoped for her recovery, but, unfortunately, despite all the efforts of the doctors, they could not save her,” said Kharkiv National Medical University while reacting to the death.
According to the reports, Nnani Adaobi Marian and her friend, Fatima Huseynova , were two medical students who were expected to receive their degrees the following day.
They were on their way to a graduation photoshoot to keep memory of the important day, when tragedy overtook them
While Fatima died at the scene of the attack, Marian sustained life-threatening injuries and was rushed to hospital, where doctors battled to save her life.
Kharkiv National Medical University said medical teams in both Kharkiv and Germany made desperate efforts to keep the Nigerian student alive, but she eventually succumbed to her injuries.
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Russian forces had launched aerial bomb attacks on Kharkiv’s Kholodnohirskyi district on June 29, as part of a wider wave of shellings on Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv regions, and the Nigerian Medical Graduate was caught in the middle
About 14 people dead and 98 others received different degrees of injuries, reports have said.
“As a result of enemy shelling, Nnani Adaobi Marian was seriously injured”, the university said.
“Doctors fought for her life until the last moment: first in Kharkiv, and later in Germany.
“Everyone sympathised, helped, and hoped for her recovery, but, unfortunately, despite all the efforts of the doctors, they could not save her,” the university said.
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