Nigeria:How Poverty Compounds Poor Medical Treatment

[Guardian] It is no longer news that many Nigerians who are not able of pay their hospital bill after treatment are being detained in the hospitals. The most affected group are women, pregnant women in particular, who are delivered of their babies but could not pay. The hospitals are forced to detain both the mother and baby until the bill is paid. At the moment, nothing is being said about the legality or otherwise of the detention; the main issue is how to get a discharged patient out of the hospital. There are man
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - Category: African Health Source Type: news