Bayelsa doctor dies after delivering triplets

A medical doctor, Dr Ere Ogbachi, has died following complications that set in shortly after she gave birth to triplets at the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital in Okolobiri, Bayelsa State.

Her death was confirmed on Wednesday by her brother, Meshack Sintei, in a Facebook statement. She was rushed to the Intensive Care Unit of the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa, where she died at about 2:45 a.m. on April 14, 2026.

According to the family, Dr Ogbachi had successfully delivered the triplets before her condition deteriorated, forcing an emergency transfer to intensive care.

“Complications arose that eventually forced us to rush her to the Intensive Care Unit in FMC Yenagoa,” Sintei said in the statement, adding that medical personnel at the ICU made sustained efforts to revive her as her condition worsened 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,” the family said, noting that her oxygen saturation levels dropped sharply during the emergency response.

Sintei described the loss as devastating, saying “a generation has been lost,” and paid tribute to his sister as a fighter who held on until the end.

Until her death, Dr Ogbachi was a wife, mother of triplets, medical 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 still ongoing at the time of filing this report.