Again, Anambra hospital detains blind man’s wife over N248,000 bill

A 39-year-old woman, Virginia James, has been held in a private hospital in Awka, Anambra State, over medical bill.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the victim had been in the hospital for about three months over her inability to pay the sum of N248,000.

The woman is a native of Izzi, Ebonyi State, but resides in Ifiteisu Awka.

She said she lost her newborn baby in the hospital following complications after delivery.

James appealed for support from her home state Governor, David Umahi, and his Anambra counterpart, Willie Obiano, as well as good-spirited individuals, to pay the bill.

She said, “I am finished in this world, with no hope of help from anywhere. My husband is sick; he is blind and deaf. I fend for him and my four kids — three girls and a boy.

“I cut grass to earn a living in Awka. When I came for the delivery of my baby boy, there was a problem.

“The medical doctor, on seeing my condition, did not ask for money before going on with the caesarean operation. But the baby was weak and died almost immediately.

“It is two months and three weeks that I have been here after the delivery; to eat is a problem too because nobody is coming for me. It is still the hospital management that sometimes feeds me. Punch