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FCT Names Road After Ebola Heroine, Stella Adadevoh
While the nation is battling with the pandemic, the federal government of Nigeria decided to honour the late Stella Adadevoh by naming a road after her in the city of Abuja.
Late Adadevoh was prominent for curbing a wider spread of the Ebola virus in Nigeria by placing the patient, Patrick Sawyer, in quarantine despite pressures from the Liberian government in 2014.
Mr Sawyer was a Liberian-American lawyer who the index case for the introduction of Ebola virus disease into Nigeria during the West African Ebola epidemic. It was gathered that when she was 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.
Pictures of the signpost then went viral on social media platforms. According to the director of urban affairs department of the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC), Magaji Galadima, the signpost showing ‘Ameyo Adadevoh way’ preempted plans for an official unveiling ceremony.
However, on Saturday evening, Personal Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on new media, Bashir Ahmad, announced that another street has been named after late Adadevoh.
In a tweet by Bashir he wrote…
“Nigeria honours late Dr Stella Ameyo Adadevoh, as the FCT, Abuja named a road after her at the Kado district.
Dr Adadevoh died in the line of duty in late 2014, when Nigeria fought and defeated the Ebola virus.
At the moment, we are fighting to defeat the COVID–19 pandemic,” He wrote on Twitter.
Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh was the Lead Consultant Physician and Endocrinologist at a private hospital in Lagos, Nigeria where she worked for 21 years. She had never seen Ebola before but was able to diagnose and contain Nigeria’s first-ever Ebola patient in July 2014. 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.
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