25 Facts About Ameyo Adadevoh

Ameyo Adadevoh is credited with having curbed a wider spread of the Western African Ebola virus epidemic in Nigeria by placing the patient zero, Patrick Sawyer, in quarantine despite pressure from the Liberian government.

Ameyo Adadevoh is known for preventing the Nigerian index case from leaving the hospital at the time of diagnosis, thereby playing a key role in curbing the spread of the virus in Nigeria.

Ameyo Adadevoh was born in Lagos, Nigeria in October 1956.

Ameyo Adadevoh spent the majority of her life in Lagos.

Ameyo Adadevoh's grandfather was from the Adadevoh family of the Volta Region of Ghana, to which she was very much connected, though she lived in Lagos.

Ameyo Adadevoh's father Babatunde Kwaku Adadevoh was a physician and former Vice chancellor of the University of Lagos.

Ameyo Adadevoh was the grand niece of Nigeria's first president Nnamdi Azikiwe, as well as a great-great-granddaughter of Sarah Forbes Bonetta and a great-great-great-granddaughter of Ajayi Crowther.

Ameyo Adadevoh went to preschool at the Mainland Preparatory Primary School in Yaba, Lagos.

Ameyo Adadevoh spent two years in Boston, Massachusetts before moving back with her family to Lagos.

Ameyo Adadevoh attended primary school at the Corona School, Yaba in Lagos, Nigeria, then the Queen's School, Ibadan Nigeria for her secondary school education.

Ameyo Adadevoh served her one-year mandatory housemanship at Lagos University Teaching Hospital in 1981.

Ameyo Adadevoh spent her residency at Lagos University Teaching Hospital and obtained her West African College of Physicians and Surgeons credential in 1983.

Ameyo Adadevoh then went to London to complete her fellowship in endocrinology at Hammersmith Hospital.

Ameyo Adadevoh spent 21 years at the First Consultants Medical Center in Lagos, Nigeria.

Ameyo Adadevoh was the first to alert the Nigerian Ministry of Health when H1N1 spread to Nigeria in 2012.

Ameyo Adadevoh correctly diagnosed Liberian Patrick Sawyer as Nigeria's first case of Ebola at First Consultant Hospital in Lagos, Nigeria in July 2014.

Ameyo Adadevoh kept Sawyer in the hospital despite his insistence that he simply had a bad case of malaria.

Ameyo Adadevoh kept him at the hospital despite receiving a request from the Liberian ambassador to release him.

Ameyo Adadevoh tried to create an isolation area, despite the lack of protective equipment, by raising a wooden barricade outside Sawyer's door.

Ameyo Adadevoh provided staff with relevant information about the virus, procured protective gear and quickly contacted relevant officials.

Ameyo Adadevoh married Afolabi Emmanuel Cardoso on 26 April 1986.

Ameyo Adadevoh died from the Ebola virus in quarantine on 19 August 2014 in Lagos, Nigeria.

Ameyo Adadevoh's body was decontaminated and cremated by the government.

Ameyo Adadevoh's family obtained her ashes and held a private interment ceremony while upholding the funeral rites on 12 September 2014, in Lagos.

The film 93 Days is dedicated to Ameyo Adadevoh and tells the story of the treatment of Sawyer by Ameyo Adadevoh and other medical staff at First Consultant Medical Center.