{"id":81378,"date":"2026-01-10T18:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T18:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81378"},"modified":"2026-01-10T18:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T18:04:12","slug":"chimamanda-adichie-accuses-lagos-hospital-of-negligence-in-sons-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/10\/chimamanda-adichie-accuses-lagos-hospital-of-negligence-in-sons-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Chimamanda Adichie Accuses Lagos Hospital of Negligence in Son\u2019s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Renowned author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has accused Euracare Hospital, Lagos, of medical negligence, alleging that lapses in care led to the death of her 21-month-old son, Nkanu Nnamdi.<br \/>\nIn a personal statement circulated among family and friends, Adichie said the incident occurred on January 6, describing the loss as devastating. She alleged that her son became unresponsive after being sedated at Euracare for an MRI and central line insertion, ahead of a planned medical evacuation to the United States.<br \/>\nAccording to her account, doctors informed her that the anaesthesiologist administered an excessive dose of propofol. Although the child was reportedly resuscitated, he was placed on a ventilator, admitted to intensive care, later suffered seizures and cardiac arrest, and died hours later.<br \/>\nAdichie alleged that her son was not properly monitored after sedation and accused the anaesthesiologist of violating basic medical protocols, describing the actions as \u201ccriminally negligent.\u201d She added that her son had been sick but stable and was taken to the hospital only for routine procedures.<br \/>\nCalling for accountability, Adichie said the tragedy should not be allowed to happen to another child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata Renowned author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has accused Euracare Hospital, Lagos, of medical negligence, alleging that lapses in care led to the death of her 21-month-old son, Nkanu Nnamdi. In a personal statement circulated among family and friends, Adichie said the incident occurred on January 6, describing the loss as devastating. She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":81379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81380,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81378\/revisions\/81380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}