What K11ld Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Son While in Nigeria? (Nigeria)

 That Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and her husband, Ivara, lost their infant son on January 6 is no longer news. 

   Chinamanda and her husband, Ivara.  (c) Google 

The internationally acclaimed Nigerian author and her medical doctor husband were in the country for the Christmas and new year festivities. 

That Chinamanda accused Euracare and Atlantis hospitals of negligence leafing to the death of Nkanu has also gone viral. 

She and her husband has arranged for Nkanu to depart Nigeria for America where doctors and specialists at John Hopkins Hospital were nervously awaiting the sick baby. 

But, they took Nkanu to Atlantis and Euracare hospitals for treatments that will stabilize him for the li g flight back to Washington DC. There were doctors prepared to accompany him on the flight. 

But, sadly and painfully, Nkanu died. Chinamanda blames the anesthesiologist at Euracare for the damning negligence leafing to the loss of her son. 

This is also, not news 

But what's news? A medical doctor, thinks otherwise of Chimamanda's accusations. Though he consols the decorated author and husband for the painful loss, the doctor thinks that the anesthesiologist is not to be blamed. 

Dr Jude Mena, a paediatrician of over two decades said, "Though I am pained for the loss of humans especially babies like this. But we must face reality,"

He said something made the procedures Nkanu was made to undergo - MRI, lumbar puncture and central line - a necessity. These are almost ICU-dependent procedures not general. "What was termed a 'cold' (very simple) looks to me like a viral encephalomyelitis and know body can just raise their heads and stage it especially in a 'celebrity child' like  Nkanụ," the doctor said, adding, "what killed the child is more of "over care" than negligence if not the terminal process of the viral syndrome."

From the above, the doctor specifies that the viral encephalomyelitis which he suspects Nkanu had, is a very serious condition which always mostly leads to death in affected infants..

But, a mother's pain is what Chinamanda is undoubtedly going through as she hauntingly declared that she "can never be the same again.:"

Mega Mode Media wishes her, Ivara, and the entire family, fast consolation and the advent of more babies to dull the pain of this loss.