Family in dilemma after triplets’ birth, unableto pay hospital bill

<center><img border="0" height="300" src=" https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2SDX0FFnogW4bi3ffdG6xO6TDRTO_TYBjRS1uhNSDv0h6b-gvGC2w3B_zSmqqpIBoKIXHA5NVn0jD8f8YFscWCEnHz6EB0QMJHdBOUSKns2jyObYtaGnZ4_vp9ANY8yMXvTOkb9Rjyfak/s280/Untitled.png " width="250"> </a></center><br/>Aww, feel bad reading this story. A woman<br/>who just gave birth to triplets is being held at<br/>the hospital over her family's inability for<br/>N150k bill. Sun News reports below...<br/>A couple with five children was recently<br/>blessed with a set of triplets. The couple, now<br/>with eight kids – five boys and three girls –<br/>never envisaged going that far in child<br/>bearing. But since circumstance had made it<br/>so, Mr. & Mrs. Ifeani Benjamin Amadu, from<br/>Ukpo in Dunukofia Local Government Area of<br/>Anambra State, have no option but to accept<br/>their fate.Mrs. Amadu told our correspondent<br/>that three months into her pregnancy, she<br/>had gone for scan only to be told that she<br/>was carrying three babies in her womb, a<br/>revelation that threw her into fright.<br/>Soon after she was delivered of the babies at<br/>Ajeromi General Hospital, Ajegunle, Lagos, on<br/>Saturday, October 27, 2014, the woman and<br/>her husband found themselves in a tight<br/>corner. They had no money to offset their<br/>hospital bills, which stood at N150, 000.<br/>Mrs. Amadu, while narrating her experiences<br/>during and after her pregnancy, pointed out<br/>that it was a serious battle. “The pregnancy<br/>was not business as usual,” she began. “At a<br/>point, my whole body became too heavy that<br/>I could not do even very common things. I<br/>could neither sleep well nor walk freely. Also,<br/>bending and bathing were tough for me. In<br/>fact, it was as if I was carrying excess load.”<br/>She told Daily Sun, however, that all the<br/>problems disappeared immediately after she<br/>was delivered of the babies. People kept<br/>trooping to the hospital to see the bundles of<br/>joy. It was discovered that the triplets were<br/>the first to be delivered in the hospital this<br/>year.<br/>Though she had a safe delivery and her<br/>triplets were in sound health, paying her<br/>hospital bills and taking care of the triplets<br/>have become a daunting task. Following<br/>failure of the couple to foot their hospital bill<br/>more than two weeks after delivery, the<br/>triplets and their mother could not be<br/>discharged.<br/>Unfortunately, Mrs. Amadu, a National<br/>Certificate of Education (NCE) holder and a<br/>teacher in a private school earns a very lean<br/>salary. Her income and that of her husband<br/>are nowhere enough for them to cater for the<br/>delivery. “I could not save enough for this<br/>delivery because my salary is poor,” she said.<br/>“I tried to get a job in a public school as a<br/>teacher, but none came my way. So I decided<br/>to manage with the one that I have right<br/>now. My husband too planned as much as he<br/>could for the task ahead, but we never knew<br/>that things would work out this way.<br/>Unfortunately, earlier before my delivery,<br/>robbers visited us and carted away some<br/>money that my husband had planned to<br/>invest in a little business. So, that is why we<br/>have found ourselves in this tensed<br/>situation.”<br/>Mrs. Amadu wants financial support from<br/>men and women of goodwill who she believes<br/>would have a share in the special blessings<br/>being brought by the triplets. “At the<br/>moment, we cannot pay the hospital bill due<br/>to our severe financial constraints. We are<br/>therefore calling on men and women of<br/>goodwill like Governors Wille Obiano, Rochas<br/>Okorocha, Babatunde Raji Fashola, corporate<br/>bodies and other groups and individuals to<br/>come to our aid so that we can leave the<br/>hospital. I am tired of staying here; I want to<br/>go home with my babies,” she said.<br/>Her husband, Mr. Ifeani Amadu, also<br/>expressed his feelings. “We have been<br/>married for 14 years, and since that time, my<br/>wife has been fruitful. In fact, we had closed<br/>child bearing after four children. But the<br/>pregnancies continued to come. After having<br/>five children, we never planned having<br/>another, yet the sixth came. As a child of<br/>God, I have been feeling so bad to encourage<br/>abortion or family planning. But now, we<br/>have been forced to do it.”<br/>He believed that the triplets would serve as a<br/>point of contact for others. He described the<br/>situation, as a serious one and called on<br/>Nigerians to come to the rescue of his family.<br/>“I have been thinking about how to get out of<br/>this situation. My wife and the triplets have<br/>spent close to three weeks in the hospital<br/>because I have no money to pay their bill. I<br/>am appealing to those who are touched by<br/>what my family is going through to assist us<br/>financially so that we could pay the hospital<br/>bill and cater for the babies too.<br/>Any financial assistance should be made to<br/>Mr. Ifeani Benjamin Amadu, UBA Account<br/>number 2032569487. The family can be<br/>reached on 07033284662 and 09035639764.<br/>Source: Sunnewsonline..

Family in dilemma after triplets’ birth, unableto pay hospital bill

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