HOSPITAL DETAINS ONE MONTH OLD BABY OVER #935,000 BILL
"After being admitted for three weeks with treatment administered on her, the health status of the one month old baby girl improved but, as at this point, incured a medical bill of N935,000:00 (nine hundred and thirty-five thousand naira) which the parents could not pay."
A private hospital, names withheld, located in Ekurede Urhobo Community, Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State, has allegedly detained a one month old baby, over the inability of the parents to pay medical bills incurred at the health facility.
According to Naij News Alert correspondent in Warri, the child's mother who reportedly took ill barely a week after she put to birth, had taken her new born baby girl to the Warri Central Hospital where the baby was admitted but later on, given a referral to the Oghara Teaching Hospital at Oghara.
According to our correspondent, "the parents of the baby decided to visit a private hospital at Ekurede Urhobo Community where the baby was admitted and treatment administered on her.
During the course of the treatment, series of tests were carried out to ascertain the cause of her sickness.
"The sickness became serious and blood transfusion was done on the one month old baby girl and, in the course of treatment, she went into coma and was placed on Oxygen support for 10 days to revive her.
"After being admitted for three weeks with treatment administered on her, the health status of the one month old baby girl improved but, as at this point, incured a medical bill of N935,000:00 (nine hundred and thirty-five thousand naira) which the parents could not pay."
"The hospital management allegedly ordered that the one month old baby girl be detained, pending when the incurred medical bill would be paid by the parents."
It was further revealed that the mother of the mother of the one month old baby girl was not allowed to sleep in the hospital at night, thereby, leaving the baby in the care of the nurses on duty.
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