Hilda Adefarasin was born in Lagos to the family of Wilford and Ethel Petgrave in 1925.
In 1945, she became pupil-midwife with Massey Street Hospital[4] but in 1948, she traveled to England, where she qualified as a registered nurse in 1951.
Her selection continued a string of educated elite women presidents of NCWS.
The NCWS during her tenure promoted an Expanded Programme on Immunization and operational theatres for young girls with vesico vaginal fistula.
[5] Adefarasin was one out of two women who were nominated by president Ibrahim Babangida as members of the 1986 Political Bureau.