Freedom has finally been secured for twin baby boys seized by a medical doctor for the inability of their mother to offset the medical bill in Imo State.
According to reports, the twins’ boys were delivered on May 4, 2024, but because of financial constraints, their parents were unable to pay the hospital bill.
However, all efforts to get the babies and their mother out of the hospital was thwarted by the medical doctor. He had insisted that that the bills be paid before the release of the children
Succour, however, came their way following the intervention of a human rights defender, Chidiebube Okeoma.
Speaking on the development, Okeoma, in a statement in Owerri, the Imo State capital on Saturday, gave credit to the Imo State Commissioner of Police, Aboki Danjuma.
According to him, the CP should be commended for his professional and fatherly intervention. He ensured that the twin boys went home. This is despite the doctor’s insistence to keep holding the babies against their fundamental human rights.
Okeoma stated that he was not the first person who had gone to the maternity ward to request for the discharge of the babies and their 19-year-old mother.
The human right activist, however, regretted that the doctor made it very impossible to secure the release of the babies.
Okeoma, however, disclosed that the doctor capitulated when the CP intervened in the release of the babies.
“After the doctor acknowledged before him in his office on Thursday that he jokingly requested that the babies be exchanged in lieu of the delivery bill, was commendable,” Okeoma said.
He noted that apart from taking the babies home for the first time since they were born close to six months ago, well meaning citizens through his effort were able to secure the release of the babies.
He stated that they bought food items, diapers and gave a cash of N100,000 to the mother of the twins.
The activist, therefore, urged the Commissioner to charge the doctor for hostage taking. And to sue him for the abuse of the medical ethics and attempt to compromise the identities of the twins.
Okeoma revealed that his team wasn’t the first to come for the discharge of the twins. He pointed out that the doctor kept hiking the delivery charges. “This was in order to make it difficult for whoever came to secure their release,” he said.
The activist, therefore, appealed to the CP to set up a panel to investigate the development. He insisted that the doctor and his nurses assaulted the 19-year-old nursing mother and the kids’ grandmother.
source: Daily Post
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