The woman (right above) by name Ijeoma Umumadumere, is
a 34 year old pregnant woman, who was rush to Garrison Clinic in Port
Harcourt, South Nigeria for medical attention on 25 November by her
husband after complaining of stomach pain and headache while cooking, but
Doctors insisting on an initial deposit of N20,ooo down payment before any
treatment could be render to her.
According to PM news report,
doctors and nurses would not attend to the pregnant woman because the husband
only had N5,000 on him, instead of the N20,000 being demanded, as a
precondition for treatment. Even the N5,000 the man had on him had been used to
offset registration and other costs.
Her brother, based in Austria could
not understand why doctors in a Nigerian hospital could have so callously
and uncaring treated the woman, pregnant with her first child.
“Her husband begged the doctor and
the nurses to attend to her since they had collected about N5, 000 he had in
his pocket in the name of registration and other little things while he would
go home and bring money.
He had also told them that because
of the nature of the emergency and the way his wife had been shouting while on
the ground that his mind had only been pre-occupied with the thoughts of
rushing her to any nearby hospital and had not thought of money or any other
thing as he had even forgotten to put on shoes, but all his pleading and
explanations to the doctor and the nurses had fallen onto deaf ears.
With her pains increasing and death
knocking and the doctor and the nurses refusing to understand, there was no way
he could have left her there unattended, to go home and bring money.
He took her and headed to another
hospital, but unfortunately my sister did not make it as the damage had already
been done before the doctors in that second hospital could do something
reasonable to save her life.”
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