Ex-Employee Refutes Claims of N500K Deposit Leading to Pregnant Woman’s Death

• A man who claims to have worked at the hospital where a pregnant woman died over an alleged N500K deposit has revealed the truth about the incident.

• A man’s social media post claimed his wife died in a hospital due to their refusal to pay a N500K deposit.

• Jimoh Abdulrahman Sadiq has shared the facts of the incident.

A man who claims to have worked at the hospital where a pregnant woman tragically passed away amidst allegations of being denied treatment without a N500K deposit has come forward with his version of events.

The incident had sparked widespread outrage on social media when a man claimed that his wife died at the facility after the hospital insisted on a deposit of N500K before any medical action could be taken. The hospital, however, denied these allegations.

According to Jimoh Abdulrahman Sadiq, who claims to have been an employee at the hospital, the situation was being misrepresented. He explained that the woman, when she was first brought to the hospital, was in a critical condition. After an immediate assessment, he said the hospital referred her to a general hospital as they were unable to manage such a high-risk case.

Sadiq’s statements aim to clarify the series of events, suggesting that the allegations made by the man who lost his wife were misleading.

His words read …

“Here is the truth about the incident. The man is just misleading the public just to shift the blame from himself.
The incident happened on the 18th of February when the wife was rushed to the said hospital and on getting there she was examined and she was severely pale (severe anemia in pregnancy), history revealed that she has convulsed twice due to Eclampsia and she will need both emergency blood transfusion and caesarean section simultaneously and the hospital said the condition is more that what they can handle and she was referred immediately to general hospital Epe without hesitation and wasting of time. We all know the process of blood transfusion in Lagos that you can only get blood from the accredited blood Bank and few accredited diagnostic centers in Lagos. This was the more reason she was referred immediately and he was never asked to make any deposit of 500k.
He can now come online and defaming innocent hospital but did not have common sense to registered his wife for ANC, even if he cannot afford private hospital, there are lots of primary health care that are cheap and affordable, they would have detected these two complications (severe anemia in pregnancy and Eclampsia) before hand.
This is the hospital I’ve worked with and I know well how they operate, the owner of the hospital is a God fearing man and he chooses life over money. I could still remember while I was working there we harbor three patients for over 3 months because they could not pay their bills even when we (the staff) were complaining, he always tells us to focus on service to humanity first.”