About one year ago, Nigeria averted what would have become the most explosive and complex Ebola outbreak in any single country in history. On July 20th 2014, an infected and ill Liberian traveler came into the country through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos and began to expose unsuspecting Nigerians right from the airport to the Private Hospital (First Consultant Hospital Obalende) where he was admitted. The man who died in the hospital on the 25th July 2015 initiated a chain of transmission of the disease that spread from Lagos to Port Harcourt and resulted in 19 other cases and seven deaths. Through a rare dint of sacrifice and commitment by some healthcare workers, the outbreak was brought under control within three months in what has been described by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as a "spectacular success story".
Unfortunately, it is surprising that this victory, unparalleled in the history of Nigeria's Public Health sector, has not been adequately recognised by the Federal Government of Nigeria. This is despite receiving numerous accolades internationally. For instance, the health care workers at the Ebola Emergency Operations Centres (EEOC) in Lagos and Port Harcourt who made sacrifices and rare commitments to fighting the strange and poorly understood disease, at a time of intense fear and uncertainty were never publicly recognised.
Consequently, non-actors, passive spectators, opportunists and even survivors of the disease have been going around parading themselves as the "Heroes" that fought the Ebola outbreak in Nigeria. Some of them have even shamelessly gone ahead to shoot fictitious films, publish articles in international and national print media and made presentations on television and at international fora dangerously distorting the true history of the Ebola fight in Nigeria. Additionally, with the help of these individuals, some powerful international media organisations now ascribe the success of the response hugely to external expertise.
On July 15 2015, President Barack Obama honoured eight American professionals as heroes in the Ebola war. Speaking at the White House, he said: "Thanks to their skill, thanks to their courage and their dedication, they not only helped keep the American people safe; they led a global response". In the future, history books will quote Mr. Obama's words that "America led the global response to Ebola". Where is the voice of Nigeria's President when his citizens actually provided hope to the world that the West African outbreak could be defeated and showed how it could be done?
The leadership provided by the Governors of Lagos and Rivers States during the outbreak remains unrecognised by the Federal Government largely because the PDP Government at the helm of affairs in 2014, did not want to promote the efficient and effective leadership provided by these two APC governors.
Worse still, a section of the Nigerian media has been used to project the health workers at the First Consultant Hospital, Lagos as the Ebola Heroes. This is despite the hospital failing in its obligation to prevent further transmission of the Ebola infection to its hospital staff if they had observed basic infection prevention and control procedures. It should be recalled that the hospital lost some of its health workers to Ebola while others survived, and all of them were detected and managed at the Ebola Treatment centre, Yaba Lagos through the effort of some brave and courageous Nigerians who worked at the EEOC. While highly commending the role of a senior doctor at the hospital, Dr. Stella Adadevoh who notified the public health authorities of the first suspect case from Liberia and prevented his escape from the hospital, but unfortunately later succumbed to the disease herself, projecting this only as the foremost reason why the Ebola outbreak was stopped in Nigeria amounts to a desperate attempt to turn logic on its head and trivialise the tremendous and exceptional efforts that went into stopping the outbreak. Having said that, Dr. Adadevoh was a courageous and thorough professional who should be recognised for her contribution to the Ebola fight as stated above

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