#BREAKING #HNNHealth A Childhood Friend Dr Stella Ameyo Adadevoh DIED PROTECTING #Nigeria from the #Ebola Outbreak.

Dr Ameyo Adadevoh on the job at a medical clinic Credit: Via Facebook

PLEASE WATCH MY VIDEO ON HEARING THIS SAD NEWS THAT CAME CLOSE TO HOME AND 

Nigerian Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu has announced the death, of Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh, the FIRST doctor who attended to Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer.

With her death, Nigeria has recorded five Ebola deaths, of which one was the index (first) case, Patrick Sawyer, one medical doctor, two nurses and the ECOWAS staff. Nigeria also has five Ebola survivors and three more expected to be discharged later this week.

Dr. Adadevoh, an experienced consultant physician and endocrinologist was Lead Consultant with First Consultants Medical Centre, Obalende, Lagos. She came into the limelight shortly after the dramatic visit of Sawyer, and will be remembered for saving Nigeria from imminent Ebola epidemic.

 Dr Ameyo Adadevoh in burgundy with the Adadevoh women Credit: Via Facebook

To my SHOCK, Watch my coverage >>all along I was reporting this epidemic, the female doctor was a childhood friend I grew up with from a dynamic medical family. Ameyo and Kodjo Adadevoh's family has always been giving to the entire medical community of patients and colleagues all the way from their father's days the late Professor Adadevoh of UNILAG who treated me and my quadraplegic brother after the Ali Must Go riots of 1978 I told you about on my 50 Most Impacting moments on my 50th birthday August 6th 2014. The story about me thrown from a car and almost gang raped at 13 on Ikorodu road, Lagos, my brother's head smashed at 8 becoming a quadraplegic for life.

Dr Adadevoh (their father) was my treating doctor during our unfortunate family incident in 1978. Him and late Professor Ojikutu treated my brother who is now 44 and lost complete use of his left hand in 2012. These were Nigeria's BEST medical teams! 

We are deeply sad at this time as my parents and I, Former First Lady Funlayo Olunloyo and my dad Governor Omololu Olunloyo were only just speaking about Ameyo yesterday Tuesday August 19th on whether it was the same Adadevoh family that treated us and we grew up with at UNILAG while my parents temporarily camped with Professor Segun Olunloyo my uncle during those days. I told my mom I will ask Kodjo on Facebook. All of we the children lost touch in person by 1982 when we left the UK for the United States but still connected on Facebook and other social media. Several condolence messages were posted by so many of our childhood friends on Kodjo's page as I attempted to inbox him about who Stella was? 

OMG!! My heart dropped as I only knew her as Ameyo!! It was HER! Please do NOT forget what she has done in this country as we should always remember she gave herself selflessly to Nigeria. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh DIED PROTECTING all of us!! 

I had not seen her or Kodjo since the late 80's since I lived 35 years in North America and never visited Nigeria 22 years straight. As much as I never knew she became a dynamic Physician, she probably never knew I became a Doctor of Pharmacy either. It was in this health epidemic that I heard her name in the last 48 hours of her discharge and have been meaning to ask Kodjo until I got the shock of my life on his Facebook wall.  

Adadevoh was a Consultant Physician and Endocrinologist, and a member of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) and the British-Nigerian Association. She holds an MBBS from the University of Lagos Nigeria, as well as a Diploma in Endocrinology from the University of London. A Fellow of the National Postgraduate Medical College, Dr. Adadevoh has practiced in the United Kingdom and Nigeria for more than three decades. She was the Lead Consultant at First Consultants Medical Centre Lagos.

That medical family was so GIVING to the community that I am appealing to President Jonathan to rehire the FIRED doctors who should obey the medical oath and go back to work in memory of Dr Ameyo Stella Adadevoh.

#RIPDrAmeyoAdadevoh

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