A private hospital, Samaria Hospital, located in the Ikotun-Egbe
area of Lagos state, has detained a woman, Jessica Ugwuoke for over one month
due to the woman’s failure to offset her medical bills. The woman, detained
since August 12, 2015, after she and her relatives said they could not afford
to pay the bill for her Caesarean section (CS), is chained to a urinal pipe to
prevent her from escaping.
According to the victim's husband Mr. Ugwuoke , he was initially
asked to pay a sum of N30,000 for blood transfusion into his wife who was
reported to have lost a lot of blood during labor. The victim however lost her
child during a Caesarean section carried out by the hospital.
The victim said, the hospital did not inform them of the cost of
the Caesarean section until after the surgery and her hospital bills amounted
to N285,000. It was learnt that the detained patient’s
husband had pleaded with the hospital to release his wife, promising to seek a
loan to pay her hospital expenses, but his request was declined by the hospital.
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