Award-winning Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has accused Euracare Multi-Specialist Hospital, Victoria Island, Lagos, of frustrating a coroner’s inquest into the death of her 21-month-old son, Nkanu.

Adichie made the allegation in a public letter she said she wrote to the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the hospital.

The letter, posted on her Instagram page on Saturday, raised serious allegations of negligence, incomplete medical records, disputed cause of death and alleged moves to delay or stop a public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the child’s death.

Nkanu, Adichie’s twin son, died on January 7, 2026, after a brief illness.

The author said she decided to make the letter public because silence was no longer an option.

At the centre of her allegation is the coroner’s inquest, which Adichie said should simply establish the truth about how her son died.

According to her, the hospital initially applied for the inquest but later took steps she believes were aimed at delaying the process.

She alleged that Euracare had now gone to a High Court in relation to the inquest proceedings.

“Most egregiously, Euracare is now asking a High Court to stop the inquest. An inquest is a public judicial inquiry designed to establish the circumstances surrounding a death. It is not a trial. It is not a claim for damages. It is simply a search for the truth,” Adichie wrote.

Adichie also alleged that the hospital’s Medical Director, Dr Tosin Majekodunmi, initially admitted that errors were made during Nkanu’s treatment.

“The day after Nkanu died, on January 8, the medical director visited our home in Ikoyi and admitted the errors made by the anesthesiologist. He accepted full responsibility. He also said that he would fire the anesthesiologist, Dr Titus Ogundare,” she alleged.

She claimed the hospital’s position later changed.

Adichie further alleged that Majekodunmi had told her that the anesthesiologist administered “too much propofol” to her son.

“On January 6, at Euracare hospital, the Medical Director, Dr Tosin Majekodunmi, whom I considered a friend and trusted as a physician, told me that the anesthesiologist had given my son Nkanu ‘too much propofol.’ Those were his exact words to me after I saw him rushing into the Cath lab where Nkanu was,” she wrote.

The novelist alleged that her son was not properly monitored after sedation and that complications from the procedure led to his death.

She also accused the hospital of failing to provide situation reports and full medical records it had promised her family.

According to her, the records eventually released were incomplete.

Adichie also rejected the cause of death entered on her son’s death certificate, saying there was no medical evidence to support it.

“We were later startled to see that Euracare had indicated that his cause of death was bacterial and fungal meningitis. This is inaccurate. There was no medical evidence to make such a claim on his death certificate,” she stated.

The writer also criticised the hospital’s lawyers for describing the death of her son as a “dispute.”

“Euracare lawyers wrote a letter referring to our son’s death as a ‘dispute.’ This kind of language is baffling in its heartlessness,” she said.

The allegations have thrown fresh public attention on medical accountability, hospital transparency and the rights of bereaved families to access full records after a death in medical care.

When contacted, an official of Euracare reportedly declined to comment on the allegations and asked that the hospital be visited for management’s response.

As of the time of filing this report, the hospital had not issued an official public response to Adichie’s claims.