S.H.O.C.K.I.N.G!!! Pregnant Woman Left To Die Over Lack of Money

Do you think it is right for any doctor to leave a
pregnant woman to die due to financial reasons?
We know it is a private hospital, but should
anyone be left to die? Aren't doctors meant to
save lives? Read the story below. A pregnant Nigerian lady has died because
doctors in Port Harcourt insisted hre husband
must pay N20,000, less than $150, before she
was treated. 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
25th 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 a doctor in a Nigerian hospital
could have been so callous to have treated a
woman pregnant with her first child in that
manner. Here is what her brother said: “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. Source: Pm News