Veteran Nollywood actor, Zach Orji has revealed how he survived two brain surgeries stemming from a fall in the bathroom.
Recounting the ordeal on Channels TV, he attributed his survival to the ‘Grace of God,’ revealing how he slumped and waited five and a half hours before he could get help.
Orji also disclosed undergoing another surgery after a follow-up scan detected blood clots a month following the initial surgery.
He said, “I slumped in the bathroom, and I can only say that it’s by the grace of God that I’m alive today because I passed out. I was out for like five and a half hours before help came.
“Benedict Johnson rushed to the house, and I was there on the floor, incoherent. I couldn’t even stand because when he raised me, I slumped again, and he had to call another colleague whom we call Labista.
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“So, the two of them lifted me on their shoulders from the second floor to the ground floor and took me to the National Hospital.
On January 1st, the first surgery was performed by Dr Biodun Ogungbo, a neurosurgeon, he is an awesome guy.
A month later, after scans revealed a residual blood clot, I underwent a second surgery by the same doctor.”
He also acknowledged the help and support he received from people around as well as the President of Nigeria.
“But in all of it, I’m grateful to God Almighty and I’m also grateful to so many people who stepped in.
The President of Nigeria, the First Lady, the wife to the Vice President, the President’s son, the Minister for Women’s Affairs, the Minister for Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy, the Minister for Works, and a whole lot of other people.
“I was receiving calls from South Africa, from the UK, from the US. Some of them were willing to, they were asking me, how can we help? How can we be of assistance? So it was overwhelming the way people responded to the whole thing”, he added.
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