Doctor arraigned for detaining nursing mother, her child for 16 months

Kenneth Ofoma

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The Police yesterday arraigned the Medical Director of Divine Grace Hospital and Maternity, Dr. Okafor Ikehukwu of 10 Nsugbe Street, Garki Akunanaw, in Enugu South Local Government Area of Enugu State to a Magistrate’s Court for unlawful detention and confinement of one Ms Chiamaka Ogbodo and her child, Kosisochukwu Ogbodo for a year and four months.

The one-count charge also accused Ikechukwu of holding the mother and her newborn child against “her will or otherwise unlawfully, depriving them of their personal liberty and thereby committed an offence punishable under 316 of the criminal code 30 volume II law of Enugu State of Nigeria, 2014”.

The police prosecutor, DSP Oliji Clement, stated that Ikechukwu from April 2016 to 1th June 11, 2016 and from August 31, 2016 to of July 8 did unlawfully detained Chiamaka and her baby boy, of which she was delivered by the doctor, for her inability to pay hospital bill. After the charges were read before Ikechukwu, he pleaded not guilty.

The Magistrate, A. O. Eze, granted the suspect bail in the sum of N100,000 with a surety of a level 16 officer with three-year tax clearance certificate, while the matter was adjourned to August 1. Commenting on the issue, Chiamaka told journalists that she put to bed at the suspect’s hospital on April 10, 2016 but due to her family’s inability to pay all the bills at once.

She said she lost her father in the process compounding her family’s financial challenge and that every appeal made to the doctor to even allow her to go and see the corpse of her late father before his interment fell on deaf ears. She said it took the intervention of the national coordinator of Human Rights Volunteer Copse (HRVC), Mr. Larry Oguego, to use the police to rescue her from the doctor’s ‘cell’ on July 8.
She further alleged that while in detention several attempts were made on her by the doctor and his friends to violet her sexually but she resisted.

https://newtelegraphonline.com/2017/07/doctor-arraigned-detaining-nursing-mother-child-16-months/

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hmmm...

If this is the case, then I suggest doctors shouldn't treat anyone without payment been made first, since they are now taking advantage of doctors human feeling.....wicked patients