Beady Nnanna, a producer and publisher, tells AYOOLA OLASUPO how her sister, Blessing Okolie, lost her life due to medical negligence by a doctor, who allegedly left a pair of scissors in her stomach during fibroid surgery at a private hospital in Lagos State
Tell us about yourself.
I’m a media personality, the producer of Beadysworld TV and publisher of Beadysworld Blog News. I’m also an influencer and social activist.
What is your relationship with the late Blessing Okolie?She was my sister.
How old was she?
She was 44 years old.
What led to her initial visit to the hospital?
She had a fibroid, and it was very big, as if she was pregnant. Even when people saw her, they mistook her for being pregnant. That fibroid was really disturbing, and she was married.
But the husband left her because of that fibroid. She couldn’t give birth to a child. So, the last time the mother tried to call the man to know why they were having issues, the man said to her, “You know that your daughter has a problem with fibroids.”
He said it as if having a fibroid had become a crime. For almost two years, the husband did not show any concern, so the situation got her worried, and she really wanted to remove the fibroid to see if she could have a child.
In December 2025, we took her to the Air Force Base Hospital, but she declined. She said she didn’t want to go there and that she wanted to go to a particular hospital at Igoke Estate, around Abule Egba, Lagos State.
I asked her why she wanted to go there because I felt that the hospital was not standard enough, but she said the hospital was good and that someone who had done the surgery there before recommended the place to her.
I objected to her idea because I just couldn’t understand why she would leave a good hospital for a non-standard one.
What happened at the hospital?
On March 27, 2026, she came to my house, and we drove to the hospital. Meanwhile, that was the first time I would visit that medical centre. We saw the doctor standing outside, but I was not happy, and I was not satisfied with what I saw there.
Blessing kept telling me that I should not bother myself and that the doctor was good. After a while, they gave us a ward where we slept till the next morning.
What were you not satisfied with about the hospital in the first instance?
The hospital was not standard. Looking at everything there, it didn’t look standard at all. So, on March 28, very early in the morning, they came to call her that it was time for her to enter the theatre.
Then she went there at exactly 7:22 am, and we were there till 11:49 am. She had the surgery, and it was okay, and they brought her outside the theatre, where there was a bench, and they laid her there.
She was there, and she didn’t even notice anything. I was the one who cleaned her mouth because she was already tired. When I asked the doctor what was wrong, he said she would come up and that I should keep calling her name.
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