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It is located on St. Gregory's College Road in Obalende, a neighborhood of Lagos Island, in Lagos. The hospital came to worldwide attention in 2014 as the hospital where the Ebola virus disease patient Patrick Sawyer was taken after becoming ill on arrival in Lagos. [1] Sawyer later died at the hospital on 24 July. [2]
Lagos (/ ˈ l eɪ ɡ ɒ s / LAY-goss; [10] [11] also US: / ˈ l ɑː ɡ oʊ s / LAH-gohss; [11] [12] Yoruba: Èkó), or Lagos City, is a large metropolitan city in southwest Nigeria.With an upper population estimated above 21 million dwellers, it is the largest city in Nigeria, and the most populous urban area on the African continent.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control is a federal agency under the Ministry. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] The agency was established in 2011 with the assistance of the US Centers for Disease Control . [ 15 ] Furthermore, there's the Health System Strengthening division whose mandate is to plan for human resource development in health.
The National Orthopaedic Hospital, Igbobi, Lagos (NOHIL),is a hospital in Lagos, Nigeria. [1] It is also colloquially referred to simply as "igbobi" or "igbobi hospital". In 2019, the hospital partnered with SIGN Fracture Care International, US to tackle limb deformity.
Nigeria is a very ethnically diverse country with 371 ethnic groups, the largest of which are the Hausa, Yoruba and the Igbo. [1] Nigeria has one official language which is English, as a result of the British colonial rule over the nation.
93 Days is a 2016 Nigerian drama thriller film directed and co-produced by Steve Gukas. [2] The film recounts the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Nigeria and its successful containment by health workers at a Lagos Hospital.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) is the national public health institute for Nigeria. [1] It is a federal government agency under the Federal Ministry of Health (Nigeria) , with its headquarters in Abuja , Federal Capital Territory.
A road named after Ameyo Adadevoh. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh (27 October 1956 – 19 August 2014) was a Nigerian physician.. She is credited with having curbed a wider spread of the Western African Ebola virus epidemic in Nigeria by placing the patient zero, Patrick Sawyer, in quarantine despite pressure from the Liberian government.