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[Dr. Toks 🦇 @fimiletoks]

In 2016, I attended a Healthcare Leadership course at Harvard. We were all meant to talk about our Health systems and my American colleagues mostly from the Boston Area / Health system talked about how the city responded to the Boston Marathon bombing. It was a perfect narration of an emergency response to an unexpected mass casualty.

I said to myself, I must tell these guys something about Nigeria, no matter what. What can match this presentation by the Boston Crew? I started with an introduction to our health system and moved straight to our Ebola story. I narrated the heroic act of the Late Dr. Adedavoh and Nurse Justina. Using the little resources available, sheer determination to conquer, and an incident management approach, the FG and Lagos state identified and successfully followed up on 894 contacts.

Isolation centers were quickly built, and infected cases were quarantined and treated. Public health enlightenment campaigns via various means, exemplary leadership by the FG, Fashola, and Dr. Jide Idris. Nigeria recorded a 42% case fatality rate, lost 8, and nursed 12 cases to full recovery. In 4 months, Ebola with a case fatality rate of up to 90% was controlled and we were declared free of Ebola.

We achieved this in a system where PPEs were luxury items, where doctors earned less than $10 per day, a resource-poor setting. I finished my speech by telling them to imagine what we can achieve with the healthcare budget and the human capital of the US. I shut down the atmosphere completely.

Even in hell, there are lessons to learn and teach if you choose not to be ignorant.

[B. @bolajiog_]

i sat for a course organised by oxford and we were asked to share policies our govt successfully implemented to cushion the effect of covid-19. while my coursemates from different parts of the world were sharing sound policies, “hoarding palliatives” was just ringing in my head

[Debbiejoyce25 @Aduragbemi52]

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[DRASA (Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh) Health Trust @drasatrust]

#OnThisDay in 1956, Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh (OON) was born.

Here's a thread of 6 facts that you should know and share about her.

#DrAdadevoh #DrAmeyoStellaAdadevoh #Ebola

[ADDOSE @wearAddose]

20. 10. 20. #EndSARSMemorial2 #EndSARSMemorial #EndSARS #EndPoliceBrutality please read the ALT text.

[DRASA (Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh) Health Trust @drasatrust]

Words do less than ten things, but actions and pictures do more than ten thousand things.

We had a great time celebrating #PatientSafetyDay today on the streets of Abuja, with colleagues from @Fmohnigeria @HPDgov, @WHONigeria, @TheWaaph, and @cmulcicaps.

#MedicationWithoutHarm

[DRASA (Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh) Health Trust @drasatrust]

Did you know? Despite security challenges, health officials from Nigeria and Republic of Niger are committed to ensuring a coordinated approach to identifying, preventing & responding to public health emergencies.

Here's how our recent cross-border surveillance meetings went...

[DRASA (Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh) Health Trust @drasatrust]

#OnThisDay in 2014, Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh (DRASA) passed on, after contracting the Ebola Virus Disease while diagnosing and containing the first case in Nigeria who entered through the Lagos airport...

[DRASA (Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh) Health Trust @drasatrust]

@WHO recently declared #Monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern.

Here's what you should know about keeping safe to prevent the spread of this disease.

#Thread 👇

[Lazy Singer @olurogba]

@Detolah_ Happy birthday Detola. Cheers to more!

[DRASA (Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh) Health Trust @drasatrust]

Let's get this picture right!.

Can you match each of these diseases to their primary means of transmission?

Share your answers in the comments.

#LearnWithDRASA

[DRASA (Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh) Health Trust @drasatrust]

We love feedback!

At various entry points we have had intensive training & simulation exercises with the public health emergency management teams, to handle health emergencies at our borders.

Here's what a participant had to say lately about our capacity building sessions.

[DRASA (Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh) Health Trust @drasatrust]

We have kickstarted cross-border meetings in Southern Nigeria. Our first meetings were held at Seme Border (Lagos) and Idiroko (Ogun) Ground Crossings with border and port health officials from Nigeria and Republic of Benin.

[EWEI @eweinigeria]

Our featured #Shero was the Lead Consultant Physician and Endocrinologist at a private hospital in Lagos, Nigeria where she worked for 21 years. Her sacrifice averted a national or even global catastrophe.

On today's edition of #SheroWednesday 👇👇

https://t.co/afjpZz2rjA

[DRASA (Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh) Health Trust @drasatrust]

Halfway into 2022 and our commitment to protecting public health remains strong. As we celebrate the first half of the year, we’re also reflecting on progress we made in 2021 across 10 states in Nigeria & 11 countries. Learn more in our 2021 Annual Report: https://t.co/ZHzTLLOXPA

[DRASA (Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh) Health Trust @drasatrust]

We’ve all been there: you go to wash your hands and realize that your liquid hand soap is almost finished. You may be tempted to add water to the soap dispenser.

But, should you?

Here's our answer with some good reasons not to.

#InfectionPreventionControl #LearnWithDRASA

[DRASA (Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh) Health Trust @drasatrust]

Good news: Our first cross-border collaboration meetings with our neighbors and public health counterparts from Niger Republic held at Ilela (Sokoto), Jibia (Katsina) and Maigatari (Jigawa) Ground Crossings last week.

These health security & intelligence meetings provide ways...

[DRASA (Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh) Health Trust @drasatrust]

Emergency preparedness is not a one-time activity. And we love how @DrEmeruemJnr puts it in these words.

As we begin a new week, these thoughts spur us to keep working towards achieving #HealthSecurity.

H/T: @WomenInFP