A pregnant Nigerian lady has died because doctors in Port Harcourt
insisted the husband must pay N20,000, less than $150, before she was
treated. And her family members are still in shock about her death,
such that they are not even thinking of burying her for now.
The
34 year old woman, Ijeoma Umumadumere, nee Ahamefule, was rushed in
the morning of 25 November to Garrison Clinic in Port Harcourt, when she
complained of a sudden stomach pain and headache, while cooking. Her
husband rushed her to the clinic on Udom street in the oil rich city. It
was between 9-10 a.m. And she was five-months pregnant.
But
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 uncaringly treated the woman,
pregnant with her first child. As he put it:
“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.”
“What a country, what a failure and
what a loss! This is a sad story of the sorry state of the Nigerian
health policy, how Nigerians are heartlessly and carelessly neglected
because of money by doctors and nurses to die in hospitals, and how I
lost my sister to a failed system,”wrote Uzoma Ahamefule, based in
Austria.
Many hospitals in Nigeria, both private and public, are
in the habit of asking for pre-payment from patients, even when the case
is an emergency.
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