Dr Ameyo Stella Adadevoh of First Consultants Hospital has died from
the Ebola Virus Disease, which she contracted after attending to Patrick
Sawyer, the Liberian/American who brought the disease into Nigeria.
Sawyer to his bed after he tried to remove the drip administered on him.
many Nigerian lives because, if Sawyer had succeeded in forcing himself out of
the hospital, it would have been difficult to trace those who had contact with
him.
to reports, she went into a coma on Monday and despite the valiant battle by the
medical team to save her life, she could not survive the scourge of the
disease.
suggested that she had survived the disease and had been discharged from
quarantine, until the Minister of health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu issued a
statement clarifying that she was not the survivor.
Although, there was high hopes that she would miraculously pull through, it
didn’t become a
reality.
The late Dr. Adadevoh was the first grandchild of Mrs Sarah Idowu
Abigail Adadevoh nee Macaulay, making her a great granddaughter of the
late nationalist Herbert Macaulay described as the founder of Nigerian
nationalism.
Her Father was Prof. Babatunde Kwaku Adadevoh, who was a grandson of
the grand old man of Nigerian anti-colonial politics. He was also a
physician.
Family Tree Genealogy website has Sarah Abigail Idowu Macaulay as the
daughter of Herbert Macaulay. She went on to marry Adadevoh.
According
to Family Tree, they have six children listed as follows;
Kwame Adadevoh, Kwaku Adadevoh, Stella Shade Ameyo Adadevoh, Charity Ronke Awoyo Adadevoh, Kowu Adadevoh and Awushi Adadevoh.
