Possible reason fresh blood was found in Mohbad’s coffin – Aproko Doctor

Dr Chinonso Ugweba, popularly known as Aproko Doctor, has given a possible reason why fresh blood was found in the coffin of late singer, Mohbad.

ThisNigeria reported that the Lagos State Police, on Thursday, had exhumed the corpse of the deceased for an autopsy to be carried out as part of the investigation into the cause of his death.

However, a video making rounds on social media shows fresh blood in the coffin where the corpse was removed from.

This has raised different speculations from Nigerians, some of whom believe the late singer was buried alive.

Reacting, Dr. Ugweba urged the public to wait for the result of the autopsy and not run with speculations.

Explaining the possible reason for the blood, he wrote on X: “Your blood has a red colour because of a compound called haemoglobin. That’s what carries oxygen through your body

When blood is exposed to air, the cells that carry this haemoglobin die, and the haemoglobin becomes exposed to air abs starts to change colour to a darker one.

This dark colour is because the haemoglobin is being changed to another compound called methemoglobin.

Normally, when people die, they die with all the blood in their system, but it doesn’t move because circulation has stopped, but it’s still there. Let’s not forget.

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Now, during embalming, this blood is usually replaced with another fluid. The question is, “Was he embalmed?”

Even at that, you can’t get all the blood out! Some will still be left.

We all want to know why it’s still red, right? There is one possible reason, in a closed compartment, there is very little air underground, so the haemoglobin may be not exposed enough to change colour to the darker one.

As to why it’s that much, we don’t have access to the body so we don’t know what other injuries we inflicted on his body, we remember his neck was in an unnatural position to fit in the coffin, it is possible that must have broken his vessels to cause some blood still in the system to leak out.

All we can do is speculate. We will not be more knowledgeable than people with the body physically and examining it.