This Woman And Her New Baby Have Been Detained In An Hospital And The Reason Is Heartbreaking
- Ayo AL
- November 21, 2017
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A woman identified as Blessing Agbo and her live-in lover, Chibugo Duru, were disgraced and put to shame and disgrace after they were both held back in the hospital over inability to foot bills.
It is entirely saddening that four months after Blessing was delivered of a baby boy through caesarean section in a Lagos hospital, God Cures Hospital, she is yet to be discharged over an unpaid bill of N215,000.
News gathered revealed that the baby’s father, Duru, had already abandoned both mother and child at the medical facility in Ilogbo, an area in Ojo, Lagos State.
This was after he said he had no means of raising the funds having lost his job as a truck driver, adding that efforts to seek the understanding of the hospital management were abortive.
It was alleged that the hospital demanded that the couple pay the bills or their new born would be sold to raise the money.
However, the hospital management denied the allegations, saying it never threatened to sell the baby to raise money for the bill.
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The Administrative Manager of the hospital, Busayo Olorunnisola however refuted this statement and said nothing of that kind happened
She also said the young mother was admitted and delivered of the baby on compassionate grounds because no deposit was made before the surgery.
She said, “We have been looking for the father of the baby. We have been feeding the woman for the past three months. He was not in Lagos when she was brought in. He was called on the telephone that the girl needed urgent surgery and he gave his consent, promising to pay as soon as he returned.
She said the hospital had decided to forgo the N1,500 daily utility fee Agbo should have been charged for the time she spent at the hospital, adding that they were only demanding the balance of the surgery bill.
Talking about her predicament, Agbo said: “We are not married yet because he has not paid my bride price. I was living with my sister when we started dating before he impregnated me. When I asked him to see my parents and pay the bride price, he promised to do it in December. I have been begging people for food at the hospital because he is also not bringing any food for me.”
The 21-year-old young lady has publicly appealed for help to get discharged from the hospital, saying that she knows that no help would come from the father of the child.
