A private facility, Unique Health Medical Centre, Warri, Delta State, has been accused of seizing a newborn over a bill of N383,500.
“The bill is N433,500 before my sister brought N50,000. We need to pay the balance of N383,500 for my baby to be released.
“My baby is about a month and some weeks old; I have not set my eyes on her for a month now; they don’t even allow me to see her. Please I’m begging Governor Ifeanyi Okowa and others to help me.” The father of the babies, Mr Destiny Ojiko, a Keke operator, was said to have fled after seeing the N433,500 bill, but later resurfaced.
The owner of the hospital, who asked not to be identified, accused the family of abandoning the baby at the hospital. He said, “We treated the baby on humanitarian grounds. We asked them to deposit N100,000 after everything; they brought N50,000 as deposit and we did not mind.“The baby stayed 10 days in oxygen because she was born premature. “As I speak, we don’t have the father’s contact; the number he filled was for someone else. We have been calling them to come and let’s talk on the modality of releasing the baby, we have not seen them.”All rights reserved.
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