The Nigerian man who lost his wife during labour has released more details concerning what happened

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The man who alleged that a hospital demanded N500,000 from him said his wife died while he was rushing him to the Epe General Hospital.

Akinbobola Akintunde Folajimi said he suspects the hospital he first visited did not have the equipment to care for his wife’s case.

Two things come to mind when I think about why they rejected us: either they weren’t equipped to handle the situation, or they cared more about money than human lives. If they were truly equipped, the worst that would have happened was that they’d keep my wife and baby in the hospital while I found the money. I would have done everything possible to get it.

Folajimi says his wife would have lived if he had money

But Folajimi said if he had the money to pay the hospital, he believed his wife would have lived. He lamented that a man like him could not raise ordinary N500,000 to pay for his pregnant wife’s health care.

He told punch

If the economy were better, raising N500,000 wouldn’t have been so difficult. Despite working day and night, I couldn’t even boast of having N200,000 in my account. They said they had to remove the baby from her body, which would cost N150k.

Then we had to buy burial clothes for another N20,000. Before we knew it, we had spent nearly N500,000 at the mortuary. Ironically, this was the same N500k that the hospital couldn’t wait for me to raise. In the end, we managed to raise it.”

Almost N500,000 spent at the mortuary

But Folajimi said that when he got to the mortuary to deposit his wife’s corpse, he spent almost N500,000, the same amount he was allegedly asked to bring at the hospital.

His words: ”

They started giving us charges. They said they had to remove the baby from her body, which would cost N150,000. Then we had to buy burial clothes for another N20,000. Before we knew it, we had spent nearly N500,000 at the mortuary. Ironically, this was the same N500,000 that the hospital couldn’t wait for me to raise. In the end, we managed to raise it – just to settle everything at the mortuary.