UPDATE: Woman Loses Triplets Over N4,000 Medication Fee

What A Loss! For Temitope Sanni, the birth of a set of triplets has
become more of a curse than blessing: Shortly after they were born,
the babies, all boys, died one after the other. Reason being that the
parents could not raise the N4,000 required of them to buy drugs.

Apparently because of the family's indigent condition, the woman was
delivered of the babies in the
parlour of the Face-Me-I-Face-You bungalow she and her husband share
with others, at Ilogbo, near Sango-Ota, Ogun State.

The home delivery was carried out by her niece. Seeing that the kids
were too fragile, the mother and father were advised to take them to a
clinic. At a nearby clinic, Damisile Medical Centre, the family was
advised to rush the babies to a general hospital.

With N2,500 as all they could gather, the family rushed the babies to
the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), but were told
that there were no beds to admit the babies and their mother.

The mother and father dashed out of LASUTH and went to the Federal
Government-owned Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH). By the
time they arrived at LUTH, one of the babies had died. At LUTH, they
were told to go buy some drugs for the remaining two boys. The total
cost of the drugs was put at N4,000.

Having paid transport fare from their home, first to LASUTH and then
to LUTH, the total money left on the mother, a petty trader, and her
husband was N1,850.

In frustration, they left for home hoping to raise money. By the time
they got home some 30 minutes after, another of the boys had died. Few
hours after, the third also died. How sad!

"Listen-up, You may be enjoying a meal and accidentally, you have a
bone stuck somewhere in your throat and your life is in danger when
you never thought it could happen. You can have emergency at anytime
and under emergency, no one prepares for it."

Culled from Nigerian Compass