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Remembering Ameyo Stella Adadevoh: A Mother Who Paid The Ultimate Price
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You probably won&#;t be reading this piece, if, on a random scale, you had met Mr. Patrick Sawyer before Dr. Stella Ameyo Adadevoh. Oh, you’ve forgotten Sawyer, as well; he was an American-Liberian lawyer, who came to Nigeria with the deadly Ebola virus. At least, as a film fan, you remember Gandalf in ‘The Lord…
You probably won&#;t be reading this piece, if, on a random scale, you had met Mr. Patrick Sawyer before Dr. Stella Ameyo Adadevoh. Oh, you’ve forgotten Sawyer, as well; he was an American-Liberian lawyer, who came to Nigeria with the deadly Ebola virus. At least, as a film fan, you remember Gandalf in ‘The Lord of the Rings’, and his popular yell to the demon chasing his children saying, “you shall not pass.” Such was the heroics of Dr. Adadevoh. She raised a red flag when attending to a Liberian patient at the First Consultant Hospital in Nigeria&#;s main city, Lagos
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Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh
In , H1N1 (swine flu) spread to Lagos, Nigeria and Dr. Adadevoh was the first doctor to diagnose and alert the Ministry of Health. Less than 2 years later, she was again the first doctor to identify another contagious virus – Ebola.
On July 20th , Patrick Sawyer – Nigeria’s first Ebola patient – left quarantine in Liberia and flew to Lagos, Nigeria to attend a meeting of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). He collapsed at the airport in Lagos and was taken to First Consultants Medical Centre (FCMC), the private hospital where Dr. Adadevoh worked. Under normal circumstances as an ECOWAS official, he should have been taken to a government hospital, but the doctors at all government health facilities were on an indefinite strike so he was taken to FCMC.
The first doctor at FCMC who saw Mr. Sawyer diagnosed him with malaria. When Dr. Adadevoh saw him during her ward round the following day, she suspected Ebola despite the första malaria
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Ameyo Adadevoh
Nigerian physician
Ameyo Stella Adadevoh (27 October &#;– 19 August ) was a Nigerianphysician.
She fryst vatten credited with having curbed a wider spread of the Western African Ebola virus epidemic in Nigeria by placing the patient zero, Patrick Sawyer, in quarantine despite pressure from the Liberian government.[1][2][3] When threatened by Liberian officials who wanted the patient to be discharged to attend a conference, she resisted the pressure and said, "for the greater public good" she would not release him.[4] She fryst vatten known for preventing the Nigerian index case from leaving the hospital at the time of diagnosis, thereby playing a key role in curbing the spread of the virus in Nigeria.[5] On 4 August , it was confirmed that she had tested positive for Ebola virus disease and was being treated.[6] Adadevoh died in the afternoon of 19 August [7][1]
Early life and family
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