Ilorin: Patients flee hospitals due to lack of money, doctors blame police

Date: 2017-01-06

Patients on road to full recovery have begun to flee hospitals in Ilorin, refusing to pay for the treatment enjoyed, medical authorities in the Kwara State capital have said.

Many of the patients flee due to their inability to pay for medical expenses incurred after being abandoned by their relatives, reports say.

Government owned hospitals have been the worst hit with such developments, and doctors claim the situation leaves them to bear the burdens.

University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), the state's Specialist Hospital, Sobi and General Hospital, Ibrahim Taiwo Road, Ilorin are two of the medical centres plagued with patients' disappearances.

Patients would escape under the pretense of taking a stroll, before disappearing with intravenous material on them, medical personnel claim.

Mrs. Funmilayo Omojasola, the Principal Officer at Corporate Affairs Unit of the UITH, said the hospital would often "look inward" so as to provide a solution when such cases are received.

Police in the state has however been accused of dumping wounded persons at the hospitals, without providing adequate information on the persons.

The police, in its defence, said its duties rest at the level of taking victims to the hospital and trying to find out the location of their relatives "where possible."

"The issue of some of these patients absconding from the hospital wards has not come to us officially, but if the hospital management are saying we always dump bad cases of accident victims in their hospitals then where do they want us to drop such cases?" Kwara State Police Commissioner, Olusola Amore said.

"I think what we are doing is to save life. Are they expecting us to start paying for their expenses after bringing them to the hospitals? They should be fair to us."

Medical personnel say they had only been upholding the "Hippocratic Oath" of saving lives, as the situation was getting increasingly worrying.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Abdulmumini Jawondo     Dan Iya Of Ilorin     Ibrahim Issa Jetti     Salmon Babatunde Salmon     Abubakar Ndakene     Saheed Akinwumi     Amuda Aluko     Muazam Nayaya     Federal College Of Education (Special), Afon     Kunle Okeowo     Christopher Ayeni     SSUCOEN     Oro Grammar School     FOMWAN     Mufti Of Ilorin     Adeleke Ogungbe     Labour Party     Igbaja     Yusuf Badmus     Monthly Sanitation Exercise     Gurei     Olateju Lukman     Wole Oke     Kwara State Football Association     Abdul-Rasheed Na\'Allah     Magaji Nda     Adamu Ibrahim Sabi     Prince Bola Ajibola     Tunji Arosanyin     Shuaib Boni Aliyu     Clara Nwachukwu     Admiralty Villa     Ilorin Airport     Mohammed Tunde-Jimoh     Oko     Abubakar Bature Sulu-Gambari     Adedipe     Abdulganiyu Salahudeen     AGILE Programme     AGF Abdulrazaq     AbdulFatai Adeniyi Dan-Kazeem     Belgore     Bayo Lawal     Yakubu Mohammed Abdullahi     2017 Budget     Mohammed Halidu     Okala Baba     Kolade Solagberu     Photo News     MINILS     NFAI     Bibire Ajape     VADA     Garment Factory     Susan Modupe Oluwole     Oyun     Oba-Solagberu     Michael Nzekwe     Umar Saro     Kwara State Fish Farmers Association     Elerin Of Adanla     Ilorin International Airport     Abdullahi Dasilva Yussuf     Kwara Consultative Forum     Dagbalodo     Bashir Adigun     ARMTI     Kwara State Health Insurance Agency     IYA ALFA NLA     All Peoples Party     Damilola Yusuf Adelodun     Katibi Ibraheem Adeola     Atiku     Saka Balikis Kehinde     Musa Ayinla Yeketi     Kunbi Titiloye     Afusat Nike Ibrahim    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Rihanat Ajia     Owo Arugbo     Kola Olota     Yusuf Abdulraheem     Abdulrasheed Lafia     Ita-Ore     Moshood Mustapha     John Kehinde Salako     Hassanat Bello     Deji Ajani     AIT Ilorin     ER-KANG Mining Nigeria Company Limited     Adanla-Irese     Danhawa     Razak Atunwa     Convocation Ceremonies     Vishvas KOZ Tractors     Mohammed Yahaya Barki     Agor Market     Olukotun Of Ikotun     Seed Technologies     IDPU     Bello Oyebanji     Geri-Alimi Split Diamond Interchange     Tunji Moronfoye     Muslim Cementary     Afin Descendants Union Of Odo-Owa     Maryam Nurudeen     Sulyman Buhari     Gbugbu     Tinubu     Isiaka Danmeromu     Ganiyu Taofiq     Osi     Offa Descendants Union     TESCOM     April 11     Abubakar Olusola Saraki     Sheikh Ridhwanullah El-ilory     UNIFEMGA     Adesoye College     Abubakar Abdulraheem     Ajibola Saliu Ajia     Muhammad-Mustapha Suleiman     Ibrahim Orire     GRA     Adijat Adebiyi     Suleman Abubakar     JUSUN     Tunji Olawuyi     Adegoke Bamidele     Oko     Emmanuel Olatunji Adesoye     Ibrahim Abduquadri Abikan     Olupako Of Share     Al-Ilory     Ibraheem Abdullateef     Saliu Mustapha     Isin     Muhammad Yahya     Ramadan     Ifelodun     FERMA     Igbomina     Kayode Bankole     Hameed Oladipupo Ali     Bolakale Kawu Agaka     Ibrahim Mashood     NSCIA     Omu-aran     Najim Yaasin     Ayodele Kuburat Olaosebikan     Olubukola Kifayat Adedeji     Babaita     Muftau Akanbi Oke     Ilorin East/South Federal Constituency     Kola Adesina