Another Nigerian
medical doctor, Edmond Adefolu Adedeji, has died in the UK, killed by
coronavirus.
Adedeji died on
Thursday 9 April. He was 62.
He was the latest of
Nigerian professionals to succumb to the virus.
Adedeji was a well
‘respected and well-liked’ doctor at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon,
before his death.
According to an ITV
news report, Adedeji, was working as a locum registrar in the Emergency
Department of the Hospital.
He took the job in
August last year after working for London’s St Mary’s Accident and Emergency
for years.
His family paid
tribute to him saying ‘he died doing a job he loved’.
“We as a family are
grateful to God for the life of Dr Edmond Adefolu Adedeji.
“He died doing a job
he loved, serving others before himself. We would like to thank the staff and
his colleagues for looking after him during his final days.
“He leaves behind a
wife, three children and three grandchildren.”
Great Western
Hospital also mourned the doctor in a condolence message:
“On behalf of the
whole Trust, I would like to extend our sincere condolences to Edmond’s family.
Our thoughts are with them, and his friends and colleagues at the Trust.”
Dr Dr Saúl DÃaz, a
colleague of Adedeji at St Mary’s, who announced his obituary described him as
good man.
“May his soul rest
in peace”, Diaz wrote on Facebook.
Adedeji was an
alumnus of African Church Grammar School, Apata Ibadan.
He was the senior
prefect in 1974, when he graduated.
His classmate,
Kikelomo Sadiku, who is based in the U.S. paid tribute on Facebook:
“This Covid 19 death
toll is beginning to hit me.
“My classmate Dr.
Adefolu Adedeji has fallen prey of this coronavirus. He was a medical doctor in
London. He was our senior prefect at African Church Grammar School Apata
Ibadan.
“He was one of the
brainy ones. I use to tag along then to teach me Mathematics. May his soul rest
in perfect peace.
“The last time I saw
him was in London before I emigrated to the USA. This is so sad.
“May God comfort his
wife and children at this time of grief. I am just sad and flabbergasted.
Please pray along”
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