Pregnant Woman Dies In Kano Hospital Over Payment Alerts Delay

Shema’u Sani Labaran, a pregnant lady from Kano, passed away in the Abdullahi Wase Specialist Hospital as a result of alleged medical negligence brought on by the current naira policy issue.

Malam Bello Fancy, the late woman’s husband, claimed that the delay in the transfer to the bank caused his wife’s death and that the physicians neglected her for more than three hours.

Recall how the government of Kano State threatened to shut down and revoke the license of any business entity found to be accepting outdated naira notes in the state and issued warnings to marketers, supermarkets, and the general public.

Residents were informed that several organizations, notably hospitals that deal with emergencies and government-owned gas stations and retailers, have begun refusing the old notes.

Speaking to Freedom Radio, Malam Fancy claimed that when his wife was about to give birth, he took her to the hospital, but that because there was no POS and the hospital refused his old naira notes, they asked him to put the money into their account instead.

The doctors on call reportedly didn’t touch his wife despite the fact that he transferred the money and got billed because they insisted on waiting until they could see the alert in their account, which took almost three hours.

When they got the alert, the pains had already quadrupled and my wife was bleeding when she came into the hospital from our home. Even so, they didn’t approach her until they got the alert, which was three hours later.

“When they hospitalized her, they learned that she couldn’t give birth on her own and needed surgery. I consented and made the payment via transfer. The time it took for them to get the warning and operate on my wife was also delayed by an extra three hours. Surprisingly, the mother died as well as the infant when they brought them out.

Dr. Rahila Garba, the hospital’s chief medical officer, refuted the allegations, claiming it did not accurately describe the incident.

However, additional hospital patients corroborated the occurrence, claiming that they, too, had issues with medical bill payment, which caused delays in receiving care.

Malam Ibrahim Abdullahi, a spokesman for the state Hospital Management Board, said they got information about the incident and would launch an investigation while speaking with City & Crime about it.

We don’t know the exact cause of the occurrence, we just got the information, he stated. Therefore, we have started an investigation into the situation.