A medical doctor, Ere Ogbachi, has died following complications after delivering triplets at the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital (NDUTH) in Okolobiri, Bayelsa State.
In a Facebook statement on Wednesday, the deceased’s brother, Meshack Sintei, said she was later rushed to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa, where she died at about 2:45 am on Tuesday.
According to the family statement, complications set in shortly after she successfully gave birth, prompting an emergency transfer to intensive care.
Describing the final moments, the family said that medical personnel made efforts to save her life at the ICU, where her condition deteriorated rapidly.
‘We watched her struggling to live, we watched her gasping for breath, we watched how the team of doctors and other experts in FMC kept trying their best to revive her’, Sintei further said.
He added that her oxygen saturation levels reportedly dropped sharply during the emergency response. ‘The SpO2 machine in the ICU began reading downwards from 70 to 50 and then to 0’, he said.
Sintei said that the family was devastated by her passing, describing her as a dedicated medical professional and mother of triplets.
‘It was a painful experience… my beloved sister died at exactly 2:45 am on April 14th 2026. A generation has been lost, and the Sintei family mourns’, he said.
He added that she ‘was a fighter to the end’, and expressed appreciation for the support received from friends and well-wishers.
Ogbachi was a wife, mother, medical doctor, registrar at NDUTH, member of the Nigerian Medical Association, and an alumnus of Niger Delta University.
Efforts to obtain official confirmation from hospital authorities were ongoing at the time of filing this report.
