Family In Dilemma After Triplets’ Birth, Unable To Pay Hospital Bill

 
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 said 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.

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 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, 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.
The husband also said,.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.

Source:- Sun News, Naijaloaded