Adadevoh, a consultant endocrinologist,
was the first Nigerian to be diagnosed with the disease.
The Minister of Health,
Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and
Communication, Dan Nwomeh, announced Adadevoh’s demise on Tuesday evening.
“We regret to announce the
death of one of the primary contacts of the index case, the most senior doctor
who participated in the management of the patient, a female consultant
physician, with this unfortunate development the total number of Ebola virus
related deaths now stand at five,” the terse statement read.
The late Adadevoh was a
Consultant Physician and Endocrinologist, and a member of the Nigerian Medical
Association and the British-Nigerian Association.
She obtained her MBBS
degree from the University of Lagos, Akoka as well as a Diploma in
Endocrinology from the University of London.
She was a Fellow of the
National Postgraduate Medical College. The late Adadevoh practised in the
United Kingdom and Nigeria for more than three decades.
As of the time she
encountered the Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer, on July 20, she was the Lead
Consultant at the First Consultants Medical Centre Lagos, where the man who
brought the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease was admitted.
The death of the medical practitioner
reinforces the concern over the safety of health workers in the crusade against
the killer disease.
Reacting to the death of
Adadevoh on Tuesday night, the Chief Medical Director, Lagos University
Teaching Hospital, Prof. Akin Osibogun, described the deceased as a “thorough
professional.”
Osibogun said he was in the
same class at the medical school with the late Adadevoh.
“We owe her a lot; she
managed the situation like a thorough professional that she was. She had helped
Nigeria to contain the epidemic in her own way.
“She was very passionate
and lively in class when we were in school,” he said.
Chairman, National Human
Rights Commission, Prof. Chidi Odinkalu, said the nation owed the deceased “a
debt of gratitude.”
Odinkalu said Adedavoh was
one of the “very best” in the medical profession.
Rest in peace
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