HON. LILIAN NGOZI EZIULOH FOOTS THE HOSPITAL BILL OF A YOUNG WIDOW TRAPPED IN MATER HOSPITAL, AFIKPO
Otu Obiahu, AJM NEWS
The member representing Afikpo North/East Constituency at the Ebonyi State House of Assembly, Hon. Lilian Ngozi Eziuloh on Monday cleared the hospital bill of a young widow, Oko Beatrice who had been trapped at the Mater Hospital Afikpo, due to her inability to pay all her hospital bills.
Hon. Eziuloh who spoke with AJM NEWS correspondent, said she decided to pay a visit to the hospital with some members of her foundation, NGOZI CARING HEARTS FOUNDATION when she came across a very young woman, Oko Beatrice, whose husband died in a motorcycle accident few months ago, and her mother Mrs. Ngozi Anuma.
The lawmaker, Hon. Eziuloh was informed that Oko Beatrice from Amaekpo Ozizza, Afikpo North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, delivered a baby through complicated major operation on the 29th of June 2020.
She said: “I just decided to pay a visit to the hospital.
Nobody told us about the case of the young woman, Beatrice before visiting the hospital.
“I was touched by the condition of Beatrice who has become a widow in her young age, and then decided to assist her in my own little way”.
It was also gathered that Oko Beatrice lost her husband, Sunday Oko Isu when her pregnancy was only three months, and was left to the mercy of God and the care of her mother.
Beatrice almost lost her life to the complicity of the pregnancy, which made her to spend five days on Oxygen and took twenty seven pints of blood, as a result, her accumulated hospital bills was close to a million Naira.
However, the parents of Beatrice residing at Ama Obolobo Nkpoghoro, Afikpo tried their best and sourced for money and paid some part of the bill, remaining N290, 000, which had kept her and her new born baby in the hospital for months.
It was during the routine visit to the hospital by Hon. Eziuloh that she paid the remaining N290, 000 through her foundation, and the young widow, Oko Beatrice was finally discharged and allowed to go home.
Meanwhile, the management of Mater Hospital and the good people of Afikpo North LGA have appreciated Hon. Lilian Ngozi Eziuloh for the kind gesture shown to the poor widow, Oko Beatrice.
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