INSIDEMAINLAND - Founder of the highly revered EKO hospital, Amechi Obiora is dead and he was 85. Obiora who is one of the three co-founders was pronounced dead after a brief illness. He was the 'O' in the acronym, EKO, derived from Eneli, Kuku, Obiora, the three doctors that founded the highbrow Ikeja, Lagos-based hospital..