A woman identified as Blessing Agbo and her live-in lover, Chibugo Duru, were put to shame and disgrace after they were both held back in the hospital, four months after Agbo was delivered of a baby boy through caesarean section in a Lagos hospital, God Cures Hospital, she had yet to be discharged over a bill of N215,000.
It was gathered that the baby’s father, Duru, had already abandoned both mother and child at the medical facility in the Ilogbo, Ojo area of Lagos State.
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.
He said, “Sometime in June, my lover went into labour while I was on a business trip in Calabar, Cross River State. I was also called that she had developed complications and had been rushed from where she had her antenatal care to the private hospital.
“The hospital called me that they needed N245,000 for an operation and I begged them to reduce the charge, but they said it was not negotiable. I asked them to go ahead and that I would look for the money when I returned.
“They did the operation and it was successful. I paid a deposit of N30,000. Shortly afterwards, I lost my job because there was nobody to assist me in taking care of my baby. I was the one running around for both mother and child and I could not go to work.
“I begged one of their doctors to be patient with me because I had lost my job, but he refused.
“I called the hospital’s managing director and asked him to involve the police in knowing my address because I would not run away with their money. He also refused.”
The Imo State indigene alleged that his siblings, who were initially visiting the baby at the hospital, stopped coming after getting threats from the hospital management over the bill.
He alleged that sometime in September, he was detained by the hospital while on a visit to his girlfriend and baby.
Source: Information Nigeria
