Ameyo Adadevoh

She 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.

[1][2][3] When threatened by Liberian officials who wanted the patient to be discharged to attend a conference, she resisted the pressure and said, "for the greater public good" she would not release him.

[4] She 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.

Her father and great-grandfather, Babatunde Kwaku Adadevoh and Herbert Samuel Macaulay, were both distinguished scientists.

[9][1] She was also the grand niece of Nigeria's first president Nnamdi Azikiwe,[10] as well as a great-great-granddaughter of Sara Forbes Bonetta and a great-great-great-granddaughter of Ajayi Crowther.

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

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

[20] Her family obtained her ashes and held a private interment ceremony while upholding the funeral rites also on 12 September 2014, in Lagos.

This is one of the first efforts made by the Nigerian government to honour her valuable contribution to the country in the last weeks of her life.