Seven
weeks after she delivered a set of triplets, a housewife, Gloria Okore, has
been detained by the management of a private hospital in Lagos over her
inability to settle outstanding medical bills of N35,000 out of N120,000
incurred at the hospital.
Mrs Okore, who delivered two girls and a boy on May 10 in Bessylva Hospital and Maternity Home, located at 60, Surulere Street, Dopemu-Agege, Lagos State, has been begging for help to raise the balance and cater for the children.
Mrs Okore, who delivered two girls and a boy on May 10 in Bessylva Hospital and Maternity Home, located at 60, Surulere Street, Dopemu-Agege, Lagos State, has been begging for help to raise the balance and cater for the children.
Source learned
that the babies were delivered preterm (seven months), and one of the triplets,
a female, died two weeks ago as there was no incubator to use for the babies. Gloria
Okore told Source that due to the hash economic situation in the country, the
family needed the goodwill of Nigerians to take care of the babies.
When
source visited the hospital, the nursing mother, who was looking pale and
unable to breastfeed the babies, was using an unkempt ward inside the hospital
with no medical facilities.
According to the 27-year-old Gloria, “I had
the triplets through normal delivery, but the babies were born prematurely. We
were charged N120,000. My husband hawks fairly-used clothes (okrika). It took
him time to raise N85,000, which he paid in installments. “I am from Owerri in
Imo State, while my husband is from Abia State.
” She gave their bank account details as UBA: 2043213179 (Umeh Okore).
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