An Activist journalist and a Human Rights defender, Chidiebube Okeoma, has helped a set of twin boys to go home after their delivery since May 4, but were unable to go home because their parents’ inability to pay the hospital bill.
Okeoma, in a statement in Owerri, the Imo State capital on Saturday, said that the state Commissioner of Police, Aboki Danjuma, should be commended for his professional and fatherly intervention which ensured that the twin boys who were delivered over five months ago went home despite the doctor’s insistence to keep holding them against their fundamental rights.
Okeoma disclosed that he was not the first person who had gone to the hospital /maternity to request for the discharge of the babies and their 19 year- old mother but the said owner and doctor made it very impossible.
He said that the CP’s intervention after the doctor acknowledged before him in his office on Thursday that he jokingly requested that the babies be exchanged in lieu of the hospital bill was commendable.
He said apart from taking the babies home for the first time since they were born close to six months ago, himself and his team bought food items, diapers and gave a cash of N100k to the mother of the babies.
Okeoma said that the gesture was made possible following the support he got from some compassionate Nigerians who heard the plight of the kids and their mother through him on the social media.
Okeoma urged the CP to charge the doctor for hostage taking, abuse of the medical ethics and and attempt to compromise the identities of the twins.
Okeoma said that his team wasn’t the first to come for discharge of the twins but the doctor kept hiking the cost of the delivery.
The activist journalist urges the CP to ask his men to investigate the assault the doctor and his nurses inflicted on the 19- year old nursing mother and the kids’ grandmother and the loss of their telephone.
