{"id":83656,"date":"2026-01-17T17:09:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T17:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=83656"},"modified":"2026-01-17T17:09:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T17:09:47","slug":"tragic-death-of-adichies-young-son-pushes-nigeria-to-act-on-health-sector-failings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/17\/tragic-death-of-adichies-young-son-pushes-nigeria-to-act-on-health-sector-failings\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragic death of Adichie&#8217;s young son pushes Nigeria to act on health sector failings"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/1920\/cpsprodpb\/ea17\/live\/a5bd5af0-f249-11f0-a422-4ba8a094a8fa.jpg\" alt=\"Head and shoulders portrait of popular Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie looking slightly left of camera against a grey background, taken during an interview at the 39th Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) in Guadalajara, Mexico in December.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A series of harrowing cases of allegations of medical negligence, including the death of novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie&#8217;s 21-month-old son, has ignited a fierce debate about patient safety <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c2d70kx6nn3o\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A series of harrowing cases of allegations of medical negligence, including the death of novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie&#8217;s 21-month-old son, has ignited&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/EURACARE.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83657,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83656\/revisions\/83657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}