A medical doctor, Dr. Ere Ogbachi, has died following complications after delivering triplets in Bayelsa State.
The deceased’s brother, Meshack Sintei, revealed this in a Facebook statement on Wednesday , adding that Ogbachi was later rushed to the Intensive Care Unit of the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa, where she died at about 2:45 am on April 14, 2026.
He said she successfully gve birth only for her develop complications shortly, prompting an emergency transfer to intensive care.
Sintei said “She successfully gave birth to triplets at the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital in Okolobiri… complications arose that eventually forced us to rush her to the Intensive Care Unit in FMC Yenagoa.”
He said efforts were made 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,” he said, adding that her oxygen saturation levels reportedly dropped sharply during the emergency response.
Sintei said “the SpO2 machine in the ICU began reading downwards from 70 to 50 and then to 0,” adding 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 said she “was a fighter to the end,” and expressed appreciation for the support received from friends and well-wishers.
Until her death, Dr. Ogbachi was a wife, mother of triplets, medical doctor, registrar at NDUTH, member of the Nigerian Medical Association, and an alumna of Niger Delta University.
Efforts to obtain official confirmation from hospital authorities were ongoing at the time of filing this report.
