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The Practice Of Detention In Hospitals For Failing To Pay Bills by Naijiant(op): 7:09pm On Dec 06, 2017
Hundreds of thousands of people are detained in hospitals against their will each year. Their crime? Being too poor to pay their medical bills. Robert Yates examines two practical steps that countries can take to eliminate this practice.
More: https://www.naijiant.com/guestcolumn/hospitals-act-modern-day-debtor-prisons-deny-rights-dignity/
Re: The Practice Of Detention In Hospitals For Failing To Pay Bills by Vivere: 1:28am On Dec 07, 2017
Naijiant:
More: https://www.naijiant.com/guestcolumn/hospitals-act-modern-day-debtor-prisons-deny-rights-dignity/
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Re: The Practice Of Detention In Hospitals For Failing To Pay Bills by matthew4grace(m): 4:58am On Dec 07, 2017
Come to ikorodu general hospital and see for your self.and they are telling us we have a government that is meant for the people .ogbeni think there is is nothing like country in Nigeria.our leaders don't care about us I tell all we need do is to wait for Gods time bro
Re: The Practice Of Detention In Hospitals For Failing To Pay Bills by Nobody: 5:38am On Dec 07, 2017
Thanks for raising this issue. I nearly wept at number of patients being detained at a local private hospital when I went to visit a sick relative.

Most of the detainees were there for amount as low as N10k. I saw a very hungry looking pregnant lady with her two kids who was detained for a fee of less than N25k and her okadaman husband had run away because of the said fees.

What kind of country is Nigeria? Even when I went to see the doctor, what baffled me was that he didn't show any atom of human sympathy on those patients. This matter needs to be looked into.
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