Dubai Crown Prince pays hospital bills of Nigerian mother stranded with quadruplets following CNN report

(CNN)Dubai's Crown Prince Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has paid the hospital expenses of a Nigerian mother and her quadruplets stranded in the city with mounting medical bills, according to the hospital.

Suliyat Adulkareem, 29, gave birth to the babies, two boys, and two girls, at the Latifa Hospital for Women and Children on July 1.

They were born prematurely at nearly 31 weeks through an emergency C-section and placed on ventilators at the neonatal intensive care unit, the hospital said in a statement.

However, the family had no medical insurance and racked up more than AED 400,000 (about $108,000) in medical expenses since the quadruplets were born, their father Tijani Abdulkareem told CNN.

The Nigerian community and other nationals in Dubai rallied around them to help raise AED 42,000 (around $11,500) to pay part of the bills.
The Crown Prince stepped in to pay the bills after he came across the initial CNN report highlighting the family's story.
He was moved by their plight and informed his office to assist the family, the hospital said.

'A huge favor'
Abdulkareem told CNN he was shocked by the ruler's generosity, and the couple have decided to name two of their babies after him.
One of the girls will also be called Latifa after the hospital, he said.

"It's just a huge favor, and we are still in shock because we didn't even know how to get the money. I had been sleepless wondering how to pay the bill," Abdulkareem said.

Abdulkareem, a chef at a restaurant in the city, said he was distressed when he discovered his wife was going to have quadruplets.

Latifa hospital CEO Muna Tahlak said the hospital staff are "overwhelmed" that the country's ruler has pledged to cover the full medical bills of the quadruplets who are still being cared for at the health facility.

The babies, two boys and two girls, have gradually been taken off ventilators and two of them now weigh 1.8 kilograms. Doctors expect they will soon be strong enough to go home.

'Unbelievable support'
The couple, who live in Dubai, had planned to have the babies in Nigeria because they could not afford medical insurance but were unable to travel because of the coronavirus air restrictions that prevented commercial flights between the two countries.

Abdulkareem said his wife gave birth nearly two months earlier than her delivery date.

The elated father said the family has received "unbelievable" support from the Nigerian community, and various nationalities which has helped them pay for two months rent for a bigger place to accommodate the quadruplets.
"We have been getting calls from Portuguese and Brazilian nationals in Dubai. People have been trying to reach us. The Nigerian community has been following us every step of the way," Abdulkareem said.

Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/30/africa/dubai-ruler-pays-nigerian-mom-hospital-bills/index.html

Thanks to the generous crown Prince and congratulations to the couple.

God bless him for the kind gesture.

Service to humanity should be everyone concern. May Allah bless the prince more and more.

This what humanity should be all about

God bless the prince and all who intervened...




Meanwhile, twins dey hungry me born , how i go take do am , though i don already born 7 kids but twins just dey hungry me

$108,000 ?
Dont worth the noise

God bless you Prince!
Quadruplets God I want.. but when I get t Canada no in Nigeria

Mean while rank your website on Google and start getting traffic
chat up

Good of him

lol

Happy Eid to the family

Since there's no election, Nigeria leaders will ignore her to her fate.

good omen

God bless him, am still here in 9ja praying to God to send us helper for 165k of our car been seized since by the owner for failure to pay due to covid19 wahala

Kind of him

Wetin our pres!d10t cannot do

In the spirit of eid al ahad, our muslim brothers should seize bombing and emulate the kind gesture of dubai Prince.

Thanks to God, for Nigerian don't hate themselves as much as they do back home.

Who else noticed the picture of the helper is not here.
In Nigeria he will hold two babies on the right and two on the left for the gram.

Na lala post b dis. make I giv am d regular

robinso01:
Service to humanity should be everyone concern. May Allah bless the prince more and more.

Another Muslim bigot...."/May....

God bless the prince. The guy should hang his boot.

My Prince My Prince the Fazza ...continue your good deeds.Thank you.
This kids sha, seems they had a meeting in heaven to be birthed in Dubai.Anyway na family planning remain.. Congratulations to the couples.

May God bless him.

Better man

God bless him nd also preserve d babies