REVEALED: Dora Akunyili Died Of Uterine Cancer
Family sources have said that the late former director general of the
National Agency for Foods and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC),
and one-time Minister of Information, Dora Akunyili died of complications
arising from uterine cancer.
One relative told SaharaReporters that Mrs. Akunyili was completely healthy
until she lost the Anambra senatorial election in 2011 to Senator Chris
Ngige.
The source stated that, at the end of the legal tussle over the election,
the former minister visited the U.S. in 2013 to undergo what she thought
would be a routine medical checkup. “Her doctor in America did a
hysterectomy and found out that she had a malignant endometrial cancer,”
said this source. He added that it was the tumor that eventually took her
life last week in a hospital in the Indian city of Bangalore after she had
struggled with the disease for two years.
Another family source stated that Mrs. Akunyili had received the best
treatment after undergoing surgery to remove the tumor, but disclosed that
the cancer was of such malignant state that it resisted therapy.
One of the two sources revealed that Mrs. Akunyili maintained an optimistic
spirit throughout her illness. “She never once believed that she would
succumb to the disease,” he said. “Instead, she returned to Nigeria
determined to fight the disease.” He added that the former minister was so
upbeat about triumphing over the sickness that she accepted her nomination
as a delegate to the ongoing National Confab in Abuja. Her emaciated
appearance at the conference was the first sign that she was seriously
ill.
The other family source also said that, in 1998, Mrs. Akunyili had received
a wrong diagnosis of cancer. She was serving then as the Zonal Secretary
(Southeast) of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF). “She traveled to the UK then
for treatment. Doctors then discovered that she was suffering from irritable
bowel syndrome (IBS).
Said the family source: “Once she returned to Nigeria, she paid back the
money the PTF had given her for treatment. General Muhammadu Buhari was then
the leader of PTF. She was in excellent health until last year when her US
doctor found that she had malignant endometrial cancer.”
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