Rest in Peace Dr Ameyo Adadevoh

58-year old Consultant doctor and Endocrinologist and member of the illustrious Kwaku Adadevoh/Herbert Macaulay/Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowder lineage, Dr Ameyo Adadevoh has succumbed to the scourge of the disease after being in a coma for 2 days. The doctor contracted the Ebola Virus Disease from Liberian Patrick Sawyer who is infamous for bringing the virus to Nigeria. Dr Ameyo was the main physician that treated him at the First Consultants Hospital in Lagos..

As the head of operations at First Consultants, Adadevoh was praised for being the first to detect that Sawyer, who was admitted at First Consultants for five days before his death, was not being truthful when he denied that he was infected with the Ebola virus.

According to reports, Dr Ameyo went into a coma on Monday and could not be revived.

Last week, her family and colleagues had held a press briefing in Lagos appealing to the US government to intervene to keep her from dying.

They felt that the medical care she was getting in the isolation ward was insufficient and had called on the US government to send the ZMapp trial drug to save her life.

Adadevoh comes from an illustrious family of physicians, politicians, statesmen and clerics.
Her father, the late Dr. Babatunde Kwaku Adadevoh, was a renowned Harvard University-trained physician and former vice-chancellor of the University of Lagos, while her grandmother was the daughter of Sir Herbert Samuel Macaulay, a foremost politician and founder of Nigerian nationalism in the early 1940s.

Macaulay himself was the grandson of Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther, who was ordained the first African Bishop of the Anglican Church in Nigeria in 1864, making Dr. Ameyo Adadevoh, his great-great-great-grand daughter.
The Adadevoh family can trace their roots to the Creoles in Sierra Leone, Ghana and South-west Nigeria.

Dr Ameyo is survived by a son and her husband. May her soul rest in perfect peace...Amen