Triplets, Mom Detained Over N40, 000 Hospital Bill
Nine days after their birth, the triplets who were Christened on Monday this week as Nabiru, Nasirulahi and Naheem and their mother, Mrs. Fatimoh Omosanya, are still being detained over unsettled bill of N40,000, at the Junik Clinic and Maternity Centre, situauted at 5, Unity Close, Akute, Ogun state, Southwest, Nigeria.
Checks by P.M.News revealed that the triplets and their mother were allowed to go home on Sunday evening for the triplets to be christened on Monday while they were brought back to the clinic in the early hour of Tuesday.
Fatimoh, the mother of the triplets, told our reporter that she was not against the clinic’s matron detaining her and the kids over unpaid bill and even commended the matron for being of assistance to her and the kids.
She said: “I am not against the matron detaining us. I had been on admission two weeks before I delivered and the matron did not collect any money from us, and when I delivered, I did not bring anything to the hospital, it is the matron that has been supplying all that my kids need.
“When the matron said that she can only discharge us after paying the N40, 000 hospital bill, I did not nurse any grudge against her, because she has been of good help to us.â€
The mother of the triplets, a school certificate holder from Banni Community Secondary School, Ilorin, Kwara State, appealed to both Ogun and Lagos State governments and well meaning Nigerians to come to their aid, as they are in need of accommodation. She was squatting with her mother-in-law in a room apartment. She added that she would like to have a shop where she can trade as she could no longer engage in hawking.
The father of the triplets, 30-year old Babatunde Omosanya, who hawks sausages a popularly called Gala, at Ojodu Motor Park, also appealed to well-meaning Nigerians to assist him financially so that he can go into a more profitable business that will enable him take proper care of the kids.
Babatunde also said that he is not against the matron’s action as they are yet to pay any money even before the triplets were born.
Mrs. Juliana Adeleke, the chief matron of the clinic told our reporter that she can only discharge the triplets after the hospital bill of N40, 000 has been paid.
She justified her action by citing past experience when some patients said they would come back to pay their bill but they never showed up.
The matron said that since the kids’ mother has been admitted to-date, she has been contributing in her little way to see that the kids and their mother are in good condition and this she has been doing without collecting any money from them.
She joined the couple and the triplets in soliciting for assistance from well-meaning Nigerians. She insisted that she can only allow them to go after the hospital bill had been paid.
—Paul Sanusi
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