For her first few days there she taught basic nursing skills to the small group of boys who spoke English and they became her staff.
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.
[4] 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.
[1][2] Gogan returned to Ireland in June 1969, where she became sister superior at Airmount Maternity Hospital, Waterford for five years.
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.