Mother, baby detained in hospital after CS section over N500,000 bill

Chinwe with the baby

A mother and her baby have been detained in hospital three months after delivery because she and her husband could not afford the N500,000 medical bills.

 Reporting the story, Punch noted tha three months after Babatunde Williams’s wife, Chinwe, gave birth to a baby boy through a caesarean section; she has remained stranded in the private hospital in the Surulere area of Lagos State.

The hospital, Midas Touch Clinic, had already stopped attending to the baby’s mother because the family had yet to pay about N500,000 bill incurred so far.

 Chinwe, 30,  had been on admission in the hospital since October 13, 2014.

It was further learnt that after the caesarean section, the woman underwent another surgery when she continued to bleed days after the birth.

PUNCH Metro gathered that the hospital charged N300,000 for the two surgeries while charges for accommodation, nursing care, and discharge as of December 15, 2014 stood at N172,000. 

The bills read in part, “As of October 10, 2014: Surgeries N300,000; discharge N32,000. As of November 28, 2014: Second discharge, N80,500; accommodation, N34,000 and nursing care, N25,500.”

Punch