₦airaland Forum

Oyiboman69:
what I'm saying in effect, is that when a patient died during treatment and after depositing some money,laws should be made to look into it cos telling someone to pay almost a million after spending over a million without the patient recovers,it is absurd. Laws should be put in place to check the activities going on in the medical environment. There are cases when some doctors knew quite alright that they cannot treat a particular patient or they know that the patient will not survive the situation, but they'll still go ahead and starts treatment knowing fully well that cannot do anything,all is just to get the money through dubious means. Like I said,laws should be made available to look into such case cos it is wrong to demand such a huge amount of money just to recover a corps. Would you agree pay a huge amount of money on something like a vehicle just to collect it from a mechanic knowing that what they did does not rectify the fault in the vehicle?.let's be reasonable here...the medical system in Nigeria is so poor that they still demand for money even when what they treat does not work and they even collect money on their own incompetence and negligence....

Eriokanmi:
Life!

My candid piece of advice...if you like your family and loved ones, don't mistakenly take them to LASUTH. There's a lot of politics playing out there. Rather proceed to LUTH. Na Tinubu people full LASUTH, including his diagnostic centre which he hijacked from the hospital and named BT ( Bola Tinubu) Diagnostics. I wish humans could live forever. Smh!

MrBrownJay1:
somebody has to pay the bill OR let them use her corpse has they wish (organ harvesting, study etc)

TalkTalkTwins:
Then two days after doing that the family will turn up with the money.
They way you said this casually, it's as if we're talking about a ram's corpse here

Minimum wage is 35k, Nigerians are really suffering.
This money is for the bills alone, they will still have to raise money for the burial and then have to pay the debt after

oluwaseyi0:
Can't blame the hospital a least they didn't stop treatment because the family didn't have money, they keep treating until it's finally over some hospital won't even attend to emergency accident victims unless huge sum is deposited

SQLmastar:
Perfect opportunity for the clinical schools to obtain cadaver for anatomical sessions.
He should not worry himself about payment. Let the dead bury themselves.

But then let's digress. Shouldn't hospitals offer refunds if patients die in their care?

Lightorder:
you made a point but if they couldn’t pay when she was alive, is it now that money will come ?

Lightorder:
Is this not supposed to be a government hospital ?

Theunbothered:
This is wickedness, the family is already going through a lot, not even to mention that the lady died after their failed treatment

oluwaseyi0:
Can't blame the hospital a least they didn't stop treatment because the family didn't have money, they keep treating until it's finally over some hospital won't even attend to emergency accident victims unless huge sum is deposited

donwily:
This is so true. They drained my friend and his wife still died after spending about N10m within 21 days in the Intensive Care Unit. A night is N150k (Aside medication) and when he couldn't meet up again with the bills, they excused him and removed the life support machine and she died.
They seized the corpse till now for the remaining uncleared bills.

Eriokanmi:
Life!

My candid piece of advice...if you like your family and loved ones, don't mistakenly take them to LASUTH. There's a lot of politics playing out there. Rather proceed to LUTH. Na Tinubu people full LASUTH, including his diagnostic centre which he hijacked from the hospital and named BT ( Bola Tinubu) Diagnostics. I wish humans could live forever. Smh!

FreeConCiencE:
You are still not clear and like you said let's be logical and reasonable. You don't know the condition of the patient and the cost of all what they have done in an attempt to revive this patient. If they have carried out investigations like magnetic resonance imaging, computerised tomography, etc or interventions like radiotherapy, chemotherapy, dialysis or using life supporting machine with daily oxygen, neurosurgery, cardiothoracic surgery etc all in an attempt to revive the patient, should they go without settling the bills just because the patient eventually dies? If you know the condition of the patient and you know what they did for her is not worth the billing, it's a different scenario. But, you can't conclude that the billing is not worth it just because the patient eventually dies. Nobody is accusing anyone of negligence here. And if you suspect negligence, you can sue for negligence. Your illustration about a faulty vehicle here does not hold . If I have a car that is draining me, I will sell it or butcher it and sell the parts. You cannot do that to a human relation. You treat and give all you have till death comes. Mind you, people still die in hospitals in UK, US, India, China, Saudi Arabia and all over the world and they still settle the bill.

FreeConCiencE:
You are still not clear and like you said let's be logical and reasonable. You don't know the condition of the patient and the cost of all what they have done in an attempt to revive this patient. If they have carried out investigations like magnetic resonance imaging, computerised tomography, etc or interventions like radiotherapy, chemotherapy, dialysis or using life supporting machine with daily oxygen, neurosurgery, cardiothoracic surgery etc all in an attempt to revive the patient, should they go without settling the bills just because the patient eventually dies? If you know the condition of the patient and you know what they did for her is not worth the billing, it's a different scenario. But, you can't conclude that the billing is not worth it just because the patient eventually dies. Nobody is accusing anyone of negligence here. And if you suspect negligence, you can sue for negligence. Your illustration about a faulty vehicle here does not hold . If I have a car that is draining me, I will sell it or butcher it and sell the parts. You cannot do that to a human relation. You treat and give all you have till death comes. Mind you, people still die in hospitals in UK, US, India, China, Saudi Arabia and all over the world and they still settle the bill.

koolaid87:
Leave Mama there, invite guests at their car park and share food. Theyll bury Mama when they don't see you no more

inoki247:
Make them take the dead body go sell den dem go kuku see buyer diz one wey people blood dey hot for Ritual....


so na she stand as her own surety nd gurantor for d hospital....

FreeConCiencE:
This is the clear reason some hospitals insist on payment before attempting treatment. And if they did not attempt saving the life of that patient before payment, it's people like you that will blame the hospital..

MrBrownJay1:
we are all gonna die... if you believe you will live forever then the joke is on you.



before entering the hospital, the family fully well knew that this was NOT GOING TO BE FREE....why biatch now?! dead or alive, someone's got to pay that bill.

DrFunmisticGlow:
so the hospital should not be paid? You're the wicked one

Oyiboman69:
what I'm saying is that in such case where the bill is high,they should cut it to an affordable amount so as to enable the family members to pay,besides, the patient we are talking about is dead and the family can't afford to pay the huge amount which lead to public outcry. what if the family decide to leave the corps with the hospital, won't that be a loss on their path also. I know you can now see where I'm driving at...

FreeConCiencE:
So, anytime the bill is high and the patient is no more, they should cut the bill even if the 'high' bill truely worth the value of what they have done for the patient? Who will now pay the remaining balance? Or the hospital should count their losses and move on?

DrFunmisticGlow:
And so?

Is government hospital Osho free, or a charity center?

Oyiboman69:
this is where I said,negotiations should be made or the government can intervene cos if the corps is left uncollected, and even decide to use it for their laboratory or sell of the parts, they can't recover that amount...

ikorodureporta:
Source: http://saharareporters.com/2022/02/20/family-laments-delay-burial-womans-corpse-held-lagos-mortuary-over-n860000-debt

oluwaseyi0:
If lasuth has insisted they won't treat without first collecting their money like private hospitals do we will still be the one to castigate them

ariesbull:
Yoruba and harvesting
.. It is as they wish not Has they wish
.

This ụna H factor seff

elonmuskbaby:
lmaooo you're not nice o
Organ harvesting Ke? shey Na Turkey Abi Na chicken laps wey them dey harvest?
A whole human being?
No use English cover am.just Kuku say they should sell her Body parts to ritualists for money rituals or juju

MrBrownJay1:
thanks for the typo correction..



you do know that organ donation is a real money maker, right?! so if they aint got the money for the bill, let the hospital sell her kidneys, cornea, heart, lungs etc to the next person in need of a transplant.... and let the family buy the organless corpse, EOD!

FreeConCiencE:
You are not making sense. The fact remains that they are still owing the hospital irrespective of whatever amount they might have spent. Are you saying that the hospital should dash them the remaining balance and count their losses. Or what are you saying precisely?