Pregnant Woman Dies Over N20,000

Ijeoma Umumadumere, nee Ahamefule, 34years, was rushed by her husband, November 25, to Udom street, Garrison Clinic in Port Harcourt, when she complained of a sudden stomach pain and headache, while cooking, and she was five-months pregnant.
But doctors and nurses did not attend to the pregnant woman because the husband only had N5,000 on him, instead of the N20,000 being demanded, as a precondition for treatment. Even the N5,000 the man had on him had been used to offset registration and other costs.
Her husband begged the doctor and the nurses to attend to her since they had collected about N5, 000 he had in his pocket in the name of registration and other little things while he would go home and bring money. He had also told them that because of the nature of the emergency and the way his wife had been shouting while on the ground that his mind had only been pre-occupied with the thoughts of rushing her to any nearby hospital and had not thought of money or any other thing as he had even forgotten to put on shoes, but all his pleading and explanations to the doctor and the nurses fall into deaf ears. With her pains increasing and death knocking and the doctor and the nurses refusing to understand, there was no way he could have left her there unattended, to go home and bring money. He took her and headed to another hospital, but unfortunately the damage had already been done before the doctors in that second hospital could do something to save her life.