One of the victims of the Ebola Virus Disease, Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh and First Consultants Hospitals where she was a physician until she died have won the 2014 Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) Integrity award with a cash prize of N2.5 million each.
The 58-year-old woman died on Tuesday, August 19, 2014, after leading the medical team at First Consultants Medical Centre, Lagos that treated Patrick Sawyer who brought the disease into Nigeria.
According to reports on Tuesday, December 2, 2014, the Director- General of SEC, Ms Arunma Oteh, said that the award was the Commission’s contributions towards the promotion, recognition and reward for integrity.
Speaking at the Integrity award night, a former Chairman of Subsidy Re-Investment Programme (SURE-P) ,Dr Kolade Christopher in Abuja, urged the federal government to find ways of honouring Dr Adadevoh.
He said: “It is important for us to come away from the territory of inadequate sense of what is right. In this county, where doctors have problems with employers, they withdraw their service so that patients will die.”
Also speaking at the event which was organized as part of the Capital Market Committee (CMC) Retreat, Simon Tasie of First Consultant Hospital said, “ We must live up to our individual and collective responsibility so that in 50 years time we will live to remember what Adedevoh has done.”
