eldest son, Dr. Ifeanyichukwu Nwobodo Jr., to cancer.
He died at the Niger Foundation Hospital, Enugu on Friday. He had
recently just returned from the United States, where he had received
treatment for cancer.
Nwobodo Jr. was said to have complained of having pains on his leg and
met a senior oncologist with the University of Nigeria Teaching
Hospital (UNTH), Enugu. He however died of complications from
medication.
According to his father, Senator Nwobodo, who was visited by Governor
Martin Elechi of Ebonyi State, Nwodobo Jr. was taken to the best
cancer treatment hospital in the US where he stayed for five months
and was discharged before he returned to Nigeria recently.
He added that the family had even gone to church for a thanksgiving
service in his home town, Amaechi Awkwunanu, two weeks ago to thank
God for his health, only for him to start feeling the excruciating
pain on his leg which led to his death on Friday.
Elechi condoled with the Nwobodo family and prayed God to grant the
family the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss.
Nwobodo Jr. was until his death, a member of the board of the
University of Benin Teaching Hospital. He was also a Commissioner for
Science and Technology in the past administration in the state.
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