No fewer than 10 patients of the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife (OAUTH) in Osun State have allegedly been detained for their inability to pay their medical bills. While about five of them, all women, have been released after paying their bills by instalment, another five are alleged to be currently languishing at the gate of the Wesley Guild Hospital in Ilesa, an annex of the OAUTH, where they are being allegedly detained.

The women, who had undergone Caesarean Section before they were delivered of their babies and surgical operations for miscarriage, had not, it was alleged, been allowed to leave the hospital for over one month for owing the hospital between N42,000 and N57, 000.

The patients, who spoke with our correspondent at the Wesley Guild Hospital in Ilesa, said they were unable to pay the hospital bills because their spouses are indigent.

Sidikat Musa (26) with the card number 271691 is a hairdresser while her husband is a dry cleaner.

According to the patient, her husband had managed to pay N55, 000 out of N97, 000 which the hospital charged them for delivering her of her baby through a Cesarean Section, leaving the balance of N42,000 to be paid by her husband before she could be allowed to go home and join her family.

Unlike the four others our correspondent spoke with, Sidikat was lucky to have a baby boy after the operation. Another patient Anifat Tajudeen (29), with card number 271833 is a tailor and her husband is a farmer. She said she had been discharged since June 6 but said the management

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