Nigeria: Ebola Survivor Ada Igonoh Recounts How She Beat the Virus

17 September 2014

Dr. Ada Igonoh of First Consultants Medical Centre is one of the doctors who attended to Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian who imported the Ebola virus into Nigeria. She was infected by the virus and miraculously she survived to share her story with BellaNaija.

She recounted her story: On the night of Sunday July 20, 2014, Patrick Sawyer was wheeled into the Emergency Room at First Consultants Medical Centre, Obalende, Lagos, with complaints of fever and body weakness. The male doctor on call admitted him as a case of malaria and took a full history.

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