A woman who just gave birth to
triplets is being held at the hospital over her family's inability for
N150k bill.
Sun News reports below...
A couple with five children was recently blessed with a set of
triplets. The couple, now with eight kids – five boys and three girls –
never envisaged going that far in child bearing. But since circumstance
had made it so, Mr. & Mrs. Ifeani Benjamin Amadu, from Ukpo in
Dunukofia Local Government Area of Anambra State, have no option but to
accept their fate.Mrs. Amadu told our correspondent that three months
into her pregnancy, she had gone for scan only to be told that she was
carrying three babies in her womb, a revelation that threw her into
fright.
Soon after she was delivered of the babies at Ajeromi General
Hospital, Ajegunle, Lagos, on Saturday, October 27, 2014, the woman and
her husband found themselves in a tight corner. They had no money to
offset their hospital bills, which stood at N150, 000.
Mrs. Amadu, while narrating her experiences during and after her
pregnancy, pointed out that it was a serious battle. “The pregnancy was
not business as usual,” she began. “At a point, my whole body became too
heavy that I could not do even very common things. I could neither
sleep well nor walk freely. Also, bending and bathing were tough for me.
In fact, it was as if I was carrying excess load.”
She told Daily Sun, however, that all the problems disappeared
immediately after she was delivered of the babies. People kept trooping
to the hospital to see the bundles of joy. It was discovered that the
triplets were the first to be delivered in the hospital this year.
Though she had a safe delivery and her triplets were in sound health,
paying her hospital bills and taking care of the triplets have become a
daunting task. Following failure of the couple to foot their hospital
bill more than two weeks after delivery, the triplets and their mother
could not be discharged.
Unfortunately, Mrs. Amadu, a National Certificate of Education (NCE)
holder and a teacher in a private school earns a very lean salary. Her
income and that of her husband are nowhere enough for them to cater for
the delivery. “I could not save enough for this delivery because my
salary is poor,” she said. “I tried to get a job in a public school as a
teacher, but none came my way. So I decided to manage with the one that
I have right now. My husband too planned as much as he could for the
task ahead, but we never knew that things would work out this way.
Unfortunately, earlier before my delivery, robbers visited us and carted
away some money that my husband had planned to invest in a little
business. So, that is why we have found ourselves in this tensed
situation.”
Mrs. Amadu wants financial support from men and women of goodwill who
she believes would have a share in the special blessings being brought
by the triplets. “At the moment, we cannot pay the hospital bill due to
our severe financial constraints. We are therefore calling on men and
women of goodwill like Governors Wille Obiano, Rochas Okorocha,
Babatunde Raji Fashola, corporate bodies and other groups and
individuals to come to our aid so that we can leave the hospital. I am
tired of staying here; I want to go home with my babies,” she said.
Her husband, Mr. Ifeani Amadu, also expressed his feelings. “We have
been married for 14 years, and since that time, my wife has been
fruitful. In fact, we had closed child bearing after four children. But
the pregnancies continued to come. After having five children, we never
planned having another, yet the sixth came. As a child of God, I have
been feeling so bad to encourage abortion or family planning. But now,
we have been forced to do it.”
He believed that the triplets would serve as a point of contact for
others. He described the situation, as a serious one and called on
Nigerians to come to the rescue of his family. “I have been thinking
about how to get out of this situation. My wife and the triplets have
spent close to three weeks in the hospital because I have no money to
pay their bill. I am appealing to those who are touched by what my
family is going through to assist us financially so that we could pay
the hospital bill and cater for the babies too.
Any financial assistance should be made to Mr. Ifeani Benjamin Amadu,
UBA Account number 2032569487. The family can be reached on 07033284662
and 09035639764.
Source: Sunnewsonline..
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