Good Samaritan: Good Nigerians pays N1.2m hospital bills For Poor patients in Imo State
Last month I cried unto God over the situation of poor, weak, neglected and abandoned sick patients in a hospital in Owerri. My attention was first drawn to a woman, who was 'detained' in the medical facilities for inability to pay her hospital bills for a period of 4months after she got discharged. The day I went to rescue her through donation from good spirited individuals, I couldn't hold my tears, more than 15 of her likes are equally detained in the hospital. I couldn’t believe it, I enquired from the Hospital management and was told, the Hospital was a specialist Hospital, most of their cases are emergency referrals from smaller hospitals, maternity and other medical and diagnostic center, who doesn't have specialist or equipment to handle. That their first priority was to save life. It happened that after patients were treated and discharged, they couldn't afford to pay medical bills, and if allowed to go, and be paying gradually. They will comple...