Doctor appeals to US on Ebola drug to save female colleague

A Partner at the First Consultant Hospital, Lagos, Dr. Ladi Okubadejo, on Thursday appealed to the United States Government to urgently send whatever medication is in its possession on Ebola virus to Nigeria.
Okubadejo, who made the appeal at a news conference in Ikeja, said this becomes necessary to save the life of his infected colleague, Dr. A. S. Adadevoh, and other Nigerians at risk of the disease.
The First Consultant Hospital was where the late Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian-American, was diagnosed with the deadly Ebola disease.
Okubadejo said that Adadevoh, a Senior Consultant Physician and Endocrinologist, was one of those who diagnosed and was treating Sawyer of the ailment when he was first brought into First Consultant Hospital.
He said: “She treated Patrick Sawyer because she was patriotic only for her to be infected with the virus.
“I am appealing to the US Government to send whatever medication they have to Nigeria fast to save Adadevoh.
“She does not deserve to die.
“So, this is the reason for this appeal.”