It has been confirmed from medical professionals
at the Nizamiye Hospital in Abuja that Stella Oduah’s son, Maxwell
Omabuwa Chinedu Etoromi, died after suffering a brain hemorrhage.
According
to doctors who spoke with SaharaReporters, anonymously Mr. Etoromi was
admitted into their care from another hospital-Zankli Medical Centre-,
but died almost promptly. “He was brought to us with the request that we
admit him, and we said, why not?” one of the doctors told our
correspondent. He added: “Despite our best efforts he died in our care
just 30 minutes after we admitted him. We could not do anything to
revive him because he arrived in a coma. We tried cardiac life support,
but it was too late by the time he arrived.”
Another doctor who spoke
to SaharaReporters said Mr. Etoromi arrived at their health facility
with a “subarachnoid hemorrhage” on Thursday evening around 6PM and was
already in the worst stage of coma possible, he died some 30 minutes
later. Subarachnoid hemorrhaging can have several causes, including a
traumatic head injury, a bleeding disorder, or the incorrect use of
blood thinning medication.
The medical doctors who spoke with a
correspondent of SaharaReporters said they were in no position to
immediately declare the cause of Mr. Etoromi’s death, but said they just
issued a death certificate in which they reported that that he had
significant hemorrhaging.
A source close to Ms. Oduah, a former
Minister of Aviation and current senator representing Anambra State,
told SaharaReporters that Mr. Etoromi had been given the wrong kind of
medication after he had his tooth pulled at another hospital creating
complications that ultimately led to his death.