According to her family, shortly after delivery, Dr Ogbachi was moved to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa, the Bayelsa state capital, where she died at about 2:45 am on Tuesday.
The deceased was a registrar at Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital (NDUTH), a member of the Nigerian Medical Association, and a graduate of Niger Delta University (NDU).
In a statement signed by her brother Meshack Sintei and posted on Facebook Wednesday, the family explained that Dr Ogbachi encountered medical complications not long after a successful delivery, which necessitated an urgent transfer to intensive care.
The statement said: “She successfully gave birth to triplets at the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital in Okolobiri… complications arose that eventually forced us to rush her to the Intensive Care Unit in FMC Yenagoa.”
Sharing heartbreaking details of her final moments, the family described a frantic, tireless effort by the medical team to stabilize her, yet despite their best efforts, her health deteriorated with alarming speed, adding: “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,”
Furthermore, the statement said her oxygen levels dropped significantly during the emergency intervention, noting also that, “The SpO2 machine in the ICU began reading downwards from 70 to 50 and then to 0.”
Describing the loss as heartbreaking, Sintei said the family is deeply distressed by her death, saying that she would be remembered not only as a committed doctor but a new mother who felt so excited that she was going to hold her babies.
“It was a painful experience… my beloved sister died at exactly 2:45 am on April 14th 2026. A generation has been lost, and the Sintei family mourns. she was a fighter to the end”, the statement said, even as the family thanked all those who have shown support during the difficult time.
Meanwhile, at the time of filing this report, hospital officials were yet to break their silence with an official statement concerning the incident.
