Their leprosy settlement was 4 miles from Abakaliki town with the only transport being by bicycle, despite this the leprosy service was successful. The first resident doctor was Dr Denis Freeman from Dublin. Dapsone tablets, an effective cure for leprosy, became the routine treatment by 1950. More medical services were being established in the diocese, when she returned from her first visit home to Ireland, Gogan was appointed the sister in charge at Ogoja as well as the regional superior at Obudu and the general and maternity hospital at Afikpo. Other sisters who joined the mission in Nigeria included Eileen Morris. In the following years, she was involved in the foundations of a number of general and maternity hospitals at Obudu, Ikom, Nkalagu and nDubia. She had been due to return home to Ireland for leave at the outbreak of the Nigerian civil war on 6 July 1967, but she chose to stay with her sisters until the battle front moved on from Ogoja diocese and the medical services were restored. She continued this work until 1969, when she was not physically fit enough to continue with missionary work. Gogan returned to Ireland in June 1969, where she became sister superior at Airmount Maternity Hospital, Waterford for five years. Death She lived at the Beechgrove convent and then the Áras Mhuire Nursing Home, Drogheda for her final 6 years, where she died on 8 May 2000. She is buried in Drogheda. References 1908 births 2000 deaths People from County Meath 20th-century Irish nuns Irish nurses Roman Catholic medical missionaries Irish Roman Catholic missionaries Roman Catholic missionaries in Nigeria Irish expatriates in Nigeria Irish midwives Female Roman Catholic missionaries