Dr ameyo adadevoh biography of barack
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Abstract
In 2014, Nigeria faced a near-existential threat when Ebola was introduced to Lagos, a city of over 20 million people. Dr. Stella Ameyo Adadevoh (1956-2014), a physician at First Consultant Hospital, played a pivotal role in preventing the spread of the virus by making the crucial decision to quarantine the index case, Patrick Sawyer, despite intense governmental pressure to release him. This review explores Dr. Adadevoh’s life, her heroic actions during the Ebola crisis, and the lasting impact of her work on Nigeria’s public health system. It also highlights the ethical and professional challenges she faced, including balancing patient autonomy with the need for public safety. Through her brave decision-making, Dr. Adadevoh sacrificed herself to save countless lives and ensured Nigeria’s swift containment of the deadly virus, leaving behind an inspirational legacy of medical ethics, leadership, and courage that continues to influence public health policy today. This paper highlights the lessons learned from her actions, emphasizing the critical role of decisive leadership in managing infectious disease outbreaks and the profound selflessness and courage she demonstrated.
Keywords: ebola, ebola virus, ebola virus disease epidemic, ethic, ethical and legal principl
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Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh
In 2012, 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 2014, 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 initial malaria diagnosis and the fact that neither she, nor any other doctor in Nigeria, had ever seen Ebola before. Dr. Adadevoh questioned Mr. Sawyer about having contact with anyone with Ebola, which he denied. Being the thorough clinician she was, she immediately contacted the Lagos State and Federal M
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Ameyo Adadevoh
Nigerian physician
Ameyo Stella Adadevoh (27 Oct 1956 – 19 August 2014) was a Nigerianphysician.
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