One disease, one continent, one historic Ebola defeat. Adeola Akinremi writes that 93 Days, a new movie co-sponsored by the United Bank for Africa and other partners seeks to preserve the story of how Nigeria defeated the virulent Ebola disease in just ninety three days
The brilliance of the afternoon sun was going down. It was around 6pm on July 25, 2014. An eclipse. The movie began, but only in our minds. Panic button has been pressed. The cell phones began to trip ceaselessly in many hands around the country. A Liberian-American carrying the Ebola Virus Disease had died on the Nigerian soil. His name would be known as Patrick Sawyer. His windy journey to Nigeria in the summer of last year first brought the global attention to Nigeria on Ebola Virus Disease. From the cosmopolitan city of Lagos to the laidback capital city of Abuja through the mangrove of Port Harcourt, the Ebola wind blew clearing everything in its path. The country lost a prominent doctor, Stella Ameyo Adadevoh, who confronted the disease early with her own life. Others died too. Then silence-both for the departed and the country.
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