SEVEN weeks after she delivered a set of
triplets, a housewife, Gloria Okore, has been
detained by the management of a private
hospital in Lagos over her inability to settle
outstanding medical bills of N35,000 out of
N120,000 incurred at the hospital.
Mrs Okore, who delivered two girls and a boy on
May 10 in Bessylva Hospital and Maternity Home,
located at 60, Surulere Street, Dopemu-Agege,
Lagos State, has been begging for help to raise
the balance and cater for the children.
Vanguard learned that the babies were delivered
preterm (seven months), and one of the triplets,
a female, died two weeks ago as there was no
incubator to use for the babies.
Gloria Okore told Vanguard that due to the hash
economic situation in the country, the family
needed the goodwill of Nigerians to take care of
the babies.
When Vanguard visited the hospital, the nursing
mother, who was looking pale and unable to
breastfeed the babies, was using an unkempt
ward inside the hospital with no medical
facilities.
According to the 27-year-old Gloria, “I had the
triplets through normal delivery, but the babies
were born prematurely. We were charged
N120,000. My husband hawks fairly-used clothes
( okrika ). It took him time to raise N85,000, which
he paid in installments.
“I am from Owerri in Imo State, while my
husband is from Abia State. We got married
three years ago. Before I had these triplets, I had
twins who died immediately after birth. When I
was pregnant for the triplets, I was very sick; I
could not walk long distance because my belly
was very big.
“I want government to help pay the balance of
the hospital bills and also help us with basic
necessities for the babies. Right now I cannot
work because the babies are still young.”
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