U.S. actor, Danny Glover is in Nigeria to star in a movie about the people who risked and sacrificed their lives to stop the spread of Ebola in Nigeria. The movie is titled “93 Days”.
Nigerian actress, Bimbo Akintola will portray Dr. Stella Ameyo Adadevoh, who along with her team diagnosed the first Ebola case in Nigeria. Glover will portray the director of the hospital where Adadevoh worked.
Adadevoh put the patient under quarantine, and stubbornly refused to discharge the Liberian man who was sick with the infection despite pressure. The brave doctor eventually died along with three other hospital staff that had contracted the disease. Her actions ensured that the fast-spreading viral infection was quickly contained.
Akintola said the movie is a story of how Nigeria triumphed over the spread of Ebola, which ravaged her West African neighbours of Guinea, Sierra-Leone and Liberia.
“Nigerians acted as one. There was nothing about you being from different ethnicity or different political party; it was about Nigerians just standing up and doing this incredible thing for Nigeria,” Akintola said.
“The doctors at First Consultants (hospital) didn’t ask for an Ebola patient. They weren’t expecting it. But they stepped up to the plate when it turned out the patient had Ebola. No one ran away. That is courage in the face of death,” she concluded.
