Google Celebrates Ebola Hero, Stella Adadevoh’s 62nd Post-Humous Birthday With A Doodle
Google celebrates Ebola hero, Dr Stella Ameyo Adadevoh (October 27, 1956- August 19, 2014) with a Google Doodle on her 62nd post-homous birthday.
As today marks her 62nd posthumous birthday, some people and organizations- including American multinational technology company- have chosen not to forget her bravery and sacrifice to her country, Nigeria. Adadevoh is a national heroine; an exemplary professional, whose selfless service to the medical profession and the nation at large should be held up to inspire others.
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Recall how the mom-of-1, Dr Stella Ameyo Adadevoh, a Nigerian medical Senior Consultant/Endocrinologist curbed a wider spread of the Ebola virus in Nigeria in 2014; by placing Liberian-American diplomat, Patrick Sawyer in quarantine while awaiting his test results. She was afterwards pressured by Liberian government officials to let the patient go so he could attend the conference he came into Nigeria for, in Calabar as planned. Now, despite threats of lawsuits, Dr. Adadevoh had remained adamant stating that she would not release the patient “for the greater public good.” Unfortunately, this great heroic act of hers led to her death.
Since Nigerian health system was not prepared for an outbreak at the time, on August 4, 2014; it was confirmed that Adadevoh had tested positive to the deadly virus which has no cure, and she succumbed to death on August 19, 2014.
The World Health Organization declared Nigeria Ebola-free on October 20, 2014.
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Check out the google doodle below:
Late Dr Stella Ameyo Adadevoh and her only child, Bankole Cardoso pictured above.
According to Wikipedia, Doodles are simple drawings that can have concrete representational meaning or may just be composed of random and abstract lines.
They are the fun, surprising, and sometimes spontaneous changes that are made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and the lives of famous artists, pioneers, and scientists
Popular kinds of doodles include cartoon versions of teachers or companions in a school, famous TV or comic characters, invented fictional beings, landscapes, geometric shapes, patterns, textures, or phallic scenes.