The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has said that relationship influencer Blessing Okoro, known as “Blessing CEO,” deceived the public by circulating a forged breast cancer diagnosis that originally belonged to another patient, Mbara Deborah, in order to solicit donations.
The Delta State chapter of NMA said in a statement that it conducted an investigation and discovered that the histology report Okoro presented as her own was issued on May 9, 2025 by Xinus Medical Diagnostics in Asaba, Delta State and not Enugu, as Okoro claimed, for a patient referred by a private hospital doctor.
The NMA said the report was never issued to Okoro at any point.
The proprietor of Xinus Medical Diagnostics and a member of the NMA Delta State chapter, Dr. O. A. Odigwe, approached the association to clarify the matter and confirmed that the original result which belongs to Mbara Deborah was the same document being circulated online by law firm Allen Juris Law, and that Okoro had no connection to it.
When confronted with this information, Okoro acknowledged receiving donations from the public but refused to apologise, claiming she had genuine personal health fears.
In its official statement, signed by chairman Dr. Israel Adaigho and secretary Dr. Usamah Hannah, the NMA said the integrity of the association and its members “is very paramount and should not be taken for granted.”
The association urged authorities to act to protect the public from further exploitation.
The statement reads: “Our attention has been drawn to an online histology report purportedly issued to one Blessing Okoro, AKA Blessing CEO, by XINUS MEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS allegedly located in Enugu State. The said histology report was also alleged to have been signed by Dr O. A. Odigwe, a consultant pathologist.
”The proprietor of Xinus Medical Diagnostics, Dr O.A. Odigwe who is also a member of the Nigeria Medical Association, Delta State Chapter has reached us and has offered the following information to clear the air on the true position of the result as follows: That Xinus Medical Diagnostics is located in Asaba, Delta State and did not at anytime issue any report to BLESSING OKORO.
”That Xinus Medical Diagnostics was actually contacted in May 2025 by a doctor from a private hospital in Asaba to do a confirmatory test on a possible case of breast cancer for his patient, Mbara Deborah. That the test was done and the result issued to the referring doctor as a case of Breast Cancer on the 9th of May, 2025.
“That a copy of that result is the one being circulated online by the Law firm- Allen Juris Law, with the name Mbara Deborah as the patient. That the result online from the law firm is the original version issued to the patient through her hospital.
”This clarification is deemed necessary in view of what the altered report being paraded by Blessing Okoro is now being used for. The members of the public should therefore be guided accordingly.
”The integrity of our association and its members is very paramount and should not therefore be taken for granted. We call on the authorities responsible for maintaining law and order to do the needful and save the unsuspecting members of the public from being taken undue advantage of.”
(TheSun)
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