Dr. Olaoluwa Ebenezer Adejayan was born on January 24th, 1980, to the family of Mr. Amos Akinbuli Adejayan and Mrs. Esther Morolake Adejayan. He attended St. George’s Catholic Primary School Ile-Oluji, Ondo State and received his first school leaving certificate in 1990. He graduated to secondary school and attended Adebawore Memorial Grammar School, Ile-Oluji where he completed his SSCE in 1998. He was quite a brilliant young man.
His exceptional WAEC and JAMB results led him to study medicine at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital Ogbomosho, Oyo State where he received his M.B.B.S in the year 2009. Dr. Adejayan’s published a research paper in March 2009, focused on a study of prevalence and factors associated with childhood malaria among mothers of rural communities in Osogbo LGA, Osun State.
Following the completion of his formal education, he received professional qualifications from The West African College of Physician, Faculty of Community Health in 2010, Advance Cardiovascular Life Support and Basic Life Support in 2017.
Dr. Olaloluwa Adejayan has outstanding professional experience which commenced in the year 2009 at the Amazing Grace Hospital Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State and Lanik Hospital Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State. He then proceeded to work at the Federal Medical Center, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State from 2010-2014 taking on different roles in different departments; He functioned in the position of a House Officer and Medical Officer at the Surgery Department, Medical Officer at the Community Medical Department at the same hospital.
In 2014, Dr. Olaoluwa Adejayan went on to work in Community Medical Department of the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, River State.
On June 18, 2011, he married his heartthrob, Mrs. Blessing Adejayan and the marriage is blessed with two handsome boys, Daniel and Victor Adejayan.
Furthermore, on his Affiliations and Professional Involvements, he served as Supervisor LQS OPV Immunization Supplementation Exercise at the World Health Organization (WHO) Bayelsa Branch. Supervisor Sweep tOPC Exercise WHO/UNICEF, and Clinical Diagnosis, management of trauma care, preventive and curative health care.
In the year 2020, Dr. Olaoluwa Adejayan was the leader of the team appointed by the Technical Aid Corps (TAC)under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an ambassador to assist Serria Leone health system during the COVID-19 pandemic. He was the medical Superintendent at Matru Missionary Hospital from 2021-2022.
His passion for improving community health led him to pursue a Master’s Degree in Public Health in the recent years.
Dr. Adejayan was loving, soft-spoken, intelligent, charismatic and above all, he was a man of faith. He loved God dearly and was a man of prayer. Though his death was sudden, and he was young, he has had a great deal of achievements and he found fulfillment in saving lives. His life and legacy lives after him. He is succeeded by his amiable wife, his two sons, siblings, nieces and nephews and many family members.