Ebola: Reps ask FG to honour late Adadevoh

Dr. Ameyo Adadevoh

The House of Representatives on Tuesday asked the Federal Government to immortalise the Dr. Stella Adadevoh, who died of the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease.

In a unanimous resolution in Abuja, lawmakers said a befitting medical institution should be named after her.

They also urged the “the‎ federal and state governments concerned ” to compensate Adadevoh’s family and the families of other health workers, who died of Ebola.

The House praised her doggedness in stopping the late Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian who brought the disease into the country from further spreading it.

Adadevoh was a senior consultant with First Consultant, a Lagos hospital where Sawyer was admitted after he collapsed at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport on arrival in the country.

It said the doctor died “after treating patients who had EVD.”

The motion on the matter was moved by an All Progressives Congress member from Lagos State, Jumoke Okoya-Thomas.

She told members that Adadevoh sacrificed her life to protect others and deserved to be honoured by the federal government.

“She died to save others.

Mr. Speaker, no honour is too much for a professional who sacrificed so much”, Okoya-Thomas stated.

The motion received support from members ‎across party lines. ...Punch