By: Emmanuel Smart Jipoh
Monrovia, October 24, 2025: The sudden and tragic loss of life of Siah Nancy Bayoh, a 38-year-old financial institution teller and rising TikTok star, has sparked outrage and hypothesis throughout Liberia and the African web.
Siah, identified for her viral “Dying in Ghana” TikTok video, died on Tuesday, October 21, 2025, shortly after her content material amassed hundreds of thousands of views.
Her passing has left many questioning the circumstances surrounding her loss of life and looking for solutions amid conflicting stories from medical establishments concerned in her last hours.
The Timeline
October 21, 2025: Siah Nancy Bayoh begins experiencing extreme abdomen ache. She is taken to the Hope for Girls’s Worldwide Hospital for remedy.
On the hospital, she is run medicines, together with a “drip,” however her situation worsens. As a result of severity, she is transferred by way of ambulance to the John F. Kennedy (JFK) Medical Hospital later that night.
Siah is admitted to JFK, the place she dies at 6:00 PM. Her physique is later deposited on the St. Moses Funeral Residence.
In line with Shanel Giddings, Siah’s daughter, her mom was affected by abdomen ache and had been pregnant for a number of weeks prior. The household sought assist on the Hope for Girls’s Worldwide Hospital, the place Siah was handled, however her situation deteriorated, prompting a switch to JFK Medical Hospital.
Giddings acknowledged, “She was affected by abdomen ache, apparently gasoline or one thing, and we took her to Hope for Girls. They gave her a drip, and when the situation began getting extreme, they put her in an ambulance and transferred her to JFK, the place she died.”
The hospital confirmed Siah’s admittance however distanced itself from claims of medical error. James Tamba, the hospital administrator, asserted, “No affected person dies at Hope for Girls, and in reality, we can not say something additional.”
Dr. Wilhelmina Jallah, CEO and former Well being Minister, additionally confirmed the incident, insisting that Siah didn’t die on the clinic. Dr. Jallah acknowledged, “This affected person didn’t die at Hope for Girls. The girl got here right here, the nurses noticed, and on my order, they transferred her.”
Dr. Jallah elaborated that Siah was not on the hospital for lengthy, and emergency remedy was offered—important indicators and sugar ranges had been checked—earlier than switch. She indicated that no additional medical checks had been performed and {that a} referral word was despatched with the affected person.
Dr. Linda A. Birch, CEO of JFK, denied the hospital’s accountability, stating, “This affected person in query didn’t die at JFK. In addition to, we’re going by means of an investigation to authenticate and set up what led to the loss of life of the affected person.”
The communications officer within the workplace of Dr. Birch, Mr. J. Edwin Junius, confirmed that the affected person was admitted to JFK, however acknowledged that no medical chart was offered upon arrival as a result of emergency.
Junius confirmed that Siah was admitted however famous the absence of a medical chart as a result of emergency nature of her arrival. Investigations are ongoing, with the hospital verifying accounts from the attending nurses and docs.
“Brothers, that case was an emergency, and in an emergency, generally as a result of circumstances, docs and nurses attend to the affected person first to save lots of their life, earlier than anything, however that affected person didn’t actually have a medical chart. Nonetheless, we’re correctly investigating. We should affirm with the nurses and docs who attended to her,” he added.
In the meantime, Dr. Jallah reiterated {that a} referral word was offered on the time of switch, however she couldn’t touch upon what occurred at JFK, as she was not current.
“We don’t ship chat with the affected person, nurses solely wrote a referral word, and we despatched the affected person in our ambulance, however what occurred after that I can not inform you, as a result of I wasn’t current,” Dr. Jallah concluded.
The shortage of readability and conflicting statements from each hospitals has fueled public hypothesis and concern.
Key questions stay unanswered:
What was the precise reason behind Siah’s extreme abdomen ache and speedy deterioration?
Was there any error or delay throughout her preliminary remedy at Hope for Girls’s Worldwide Hospital?
Did JFK Medical Hospital comply with correct emergency procedures upon her arrival?
What function, if any, did her early being pregnant play within the medical final result?
Each medical establishments deny wrongdoing and shift accountability, leaving Siah’s household and the general public searching for the reality. The continued investigation at JFK could present extra solutions, however for now, there isn’t a official dedication concerning the trigger or circumstances of her loss of life.
In the meantime, the late Bayoh’s physique has been deposited on the St. Moses Funeral Residence, Japan-Freeway, as household, associates, sympathizers, and followers wipe away tears, concerning her unhappy passing. -Edited by Othello B. Garblah.
