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.

Abdulrahman Abdulrasak     Ibrahim Mohammed     Medinat Folorunsho Salman     Sobi Specialist Hospital     NIPR     Kale Ayo     Saliu Tunde Bello     Aliyu Salihu     Olokoba     Khadijat Ayoola Yusuf     Ilorin South Constituency     Kwara 2015     Kwara 2023     Academic Staff Union Of Universities     Haliru Dantoro     Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa     Illyasu Abdullahi     Jide Ashonibare     Ayedun     Abatemi-Usman     Pakata Development Association     Alfa Modibbo Belgore     ARMTI     Abdulganiy Abimbola Abdussalam     Abdulganiyu AbdulAzeez     Funmi Salau     Sodiya     Ayegbeni     Temitope Ogunbanke     Senate President     Quranic Recitation Competition     Deji Ajani     Aminu Adisa Logun     Ilorin Muslim Community     Budo-Egba     Bashir Adigun     Isiaka AbdulRazaq     Sardauna     Isiaka Yusuf     Moro     Saliu Ajibola Ajia     Hassan Oyeleke     Pius Abioje     Dogara     N-Power     Kwara State Fire Service     Economic And Financial Crimes Commission     Idi-Ape     Oluronke Adeyemi     Kwara State University Of Education     Raji AbdulRasaq     AGM Professional Services     Rotimi Atere     Kwara State Sports Commission     SAPZ Project     Olatunji Ayeni     Umaru Saro     Tosho Yaqub     Otunba Taiwo Joseph     KWSIEC     SWAN     David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     Ilorin Metro Park     Ridwan Agboola     Undergraduate Bursary     Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Adamu B. Yaqubu     Gobirawa     Kehinde Boyede     Otuka     Awwal Jawondo     Seun Bolaji     Elesie Of Esie     Henry Makinwa     CACOVID     Isau     Abiodun Jacob Ajiboye    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Assayomo     Oko Erin     Shehu Adaramaja     Maryam Nurudeen     TESCOM 2025     Saadu Alanamu     Ilorin Amusement Park     International Aviation College     Salihu Alhaji Musa     Monthly Sanitation Exercise     Elerin Of Adanla     Baba Issa Awoye     Ileloke     Kwara Volleyball Association     Abdulazeez Uthman     Yoonus Kola Olatinwo     Saba Mamman Daniel     Kwara State Fire Service     Lanre Badmas     Bello Oyedepo     Amosa     Abubakar Usman Jos     Maimunat Oniyangi     Aremu Bose Deborah     Special Agro-industrial Processing Zone     Jide Ashonibare     Bashir Adigun     Olupako     Bareke     Peter Amogbonjaye     Ojuekun     Kwara Poly     Abdulkadir Akanbi-Oke     Adebayo Mohammed Kamaldeen     Ado Ibrahim     Yemi Sanni     Alore     Abdullahi AbdulMajeed     Marafan Shonga     Azeez Bello     Oko     Balikis Jawondo     Sheikh Ariyibi     Otoge     Odolaye Aremu     Demola Banu     Muhammed Aliyu     Bolakale Kawu Agaka     Abdulmutalib Shittu     Mohammed Danjuma     Kolawole Akande     Baba-Isale     Ibikunle Ogunleye     Michael Nzekwe     Yusuf Abdulwahab     Igbaja     Egbejila     Gani Saadu     Joshua Adeyemi Adimula     Abdullahi Samari     Minimum Wage     MalHub     Abubakar Abdullahi Bata     Bolaji Abdullahi     Mukhtar Shagaya     Kwara State University Of Education     TIIDELab     Ibrahim Issa Jetti     Ridwan Agboola     KWASSIP     Kayode Ogunlowo     Olabode George Towoju     Hassan Taiye Salam     Colleges Of Education Academic Staff Union     Facemasks     Kayode Issa     Firdaos Amasa