Ameyo Stella Adadevoh found her calling as a physician, where her conscientious and compassionate nature could really come through. As confirmed by both colleagues and friends, she was an extremely dedicated, kind, Godfearing individual, who devoted herself fully to her pursuits. Just as she was a very competent doctor, so was she a loving mother, a dutiful daughter, a caring sister and a dependable friend. Humanity meant more than just words to her, it was worth dying for.
Dr Adadevoh’s name became known in 2014 but unknown to the majority of Nigerians, she had actually helped to avert what could have been a national disaster two years earlier. In 2012, swine flu had found its way to Lagos and Dr. Adadevoh was the first doctor in Nigeria to diagnose and alert the Ministry of Health about it. Just two years later, she played a similar role by alerting government authorities that the sick Liberian-American traveller to Nigeria, who had been brought to First Consultants Hospital, was indeed infected by the dreaded Ebola virus. But this time, her role didn’t end there. After diagnosing Sawyer with Ebola virus, she insisted on keeping him on admission in the hospital despite threats from the Liberian government who wanted Sawyer, their employee, to attend a conference in Calabar, Cross River State. To the pressure they put on her to discharge Sawyer, her measured but patriotic response was, “for the greater good, for the love of humanity and for the love of country, I will not release him.” Sawyer died at the hospital on July 25.
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