Rokhaya Diagne yana da shekaru 25 kawai, amma ta riga ta yi babban mafarki: don yaki da zazzabin cizon sauro, daya daga cikin cututtuka mafi hatsari a Afirka. Godiya ga sabon aikinta, tana amfani da basirar wucin gadi don gano wannan cuta. Amma wacece Rokhaya da gaske?
Ta yi karatu a Jami’ar Kimiyya da Fasaha ta Amurka da ke Dakar, wurin da kowane dalibi ke cin gajiyar malami daya ga kowane dalibi biyar, kuma duk wanda ya kammala karatun ya sami aikin yi! Wannan kafa, wanda Dr Sidy Ndao ya kafa, yana cikin Somone, a cikin kyakkyawan yanki na Thiès. Rokhaya wani bangare ne na sabbin ‘yan Afirka da suka gamsu cewa fasaha na iya magance manyan matsaloli.
Kwanan nan jaridar New York Times ta rubuta wata kasida game da ita, inda ta bayyana jajircewarta a fannin kiwon lafiya. Rokhaya, wadda ta fi son wasannin bidiyo tun tana matashiya, yanzu tana amfani da basirarta wajen taimaka wa kawar da cutar zazzabin cizon sauro da ke haddasa mutuwar mutane sama da 600,000 a kowace shekara, akasari a Afirka.
A Senegal, cutar zazzabin cizon sauro ta kasance babbar matsala, musamman saboda rashin isassun gwaje-gwaje masu inganci a yankunan karkara. Don magance wannan, Rokhaya yana aiki akan tsarin gano cutar zazzabin cizon sauro na tushen AI don yin gwajin sauri da inganci.
An riga an ba da lada a cikin aikin da ta yi tuƙuru: ta sami lambar yabo a wani taro a Ghana kuma ta ci $8,000 a matsayin tallafin aikinta. Rokhaya bai tsaya nan ba; tana kuma son yin amfani da AI don gano ƙwayoyin cutar kansa a nan gaba. A watan Nuwamba, za ta yi tafiya zuwa Switzerland don shiga cikin shirin horarwa da kuma samun ƙarin goyon baya ga aikinta.
Rokhaya Diagne misali ne mai ban sha’awa ga duk matasa!
