The family of the late Nollywood actress,
Moji Olaiya, on Monday, released a statement indicating that the
autopsy conducted on her remains showed that she died of a ‘natural
medical cause’.
In a statement by Moji’s brother , Femi Olaiya,
the family dismissed rumours that the late actress was poisoned in
Canada where she was delivered of a baby girl in Feburary.
However, doctors, who spoke with PUNCH’s correspondent on Monday,
said that the autopsy report suggested that the late mother of two must
have died of a traceable and demonstrable medical cause.
A medical
consultant with the Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital,
Ogbomoso, Oyo State, Dr. Adeoye Oyewole said, “Someone is said to have
died of a ‘ medical cause’ when there is a traceable and demonstrable
medical pathology that is related to the death. The term ‘natural
medical cause’ is not medical.
“For instance, if the person had
suffered a heart or cardiovascular event just before he/she died, that
is a traceable medical cause. If the person also had an underlying
medical condition like an enlarged heart but an event triggered a shock
to the system to have caused the death, it is also a medical cause.”
A
cardiologist with the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba,
Dr. Afolabi Akinkunmi, corroborated Oyewole’s views, saying there was
always a medical cause to every death; and an autopsy was usually
carried out to establish the exact or underlying cause of the
individual’s death.
Akinkunmi said, “There is always a medical
cause for every natural death. If you have any doubt, then the autopsy
report is conducted and the coroner will state it on the death
certificate.”
Another expert. Dr. Babajide Saheed, noted that a
person who suffered a sudden cardiac arrest or a condition that shuts
down the brain or nervous system in a short time is said to have died of
a natural cause.
Saheed said, “There is always a medical
pathology to every natural death. So a natural death means that there is
nothing you could have done to help the individual, such as if the
person experienced a sudden cardiac arrest and died even before getting
to the hospital.
“If a person that has a terminal disease such as
leukemia dies, it is a natural death because there is nothing you could
have done for the patient. These are natural deaths with a traceable
medical pathology.”
The actress died on May 18 in Canada and her remains were interred at the Ebony Vaults, Ikoyi Cemetery, on Wednesday.
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