Kind man pays GHC5k hospital bills for 6 stranded mums & babies at Korle-Bu (photos)

  • A man resident in the UK has paid medical bills worth GHC5,000 for six stranded new mothers and their babies at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital

The man made the kind gesture during a visit to the hospital when he visited the country

  • Chris-Vincent Febiri, a Ghanaian UK-resident Human Rights Advocate, disclosed in a post on social media

  • Chris-Vincent also shared images of his friend and the women after they were discharged

A benevolent UK-resident young man has paid for the medical bills of six stranded birthing mothers at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital for the new mothers to be released.

According to Chris-Vincent Agyapong Febiri, the founding editor of Ghanacelebrities.com and Human Rights Advocate, his friend was left heart-wrenched by the state of the women when he arrived in Ghana and he visited the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital. Crippled by the disheartening condition of women who had delivered new babies but were being held by the hospital for unpaid bills, his friend donated GHC5,000 to defray the debts of the women. ”He paid 5,000 GHS for 6 women he does not know from anywhere—and they were soon discharged,” Chris-Vincent revealed said.

Chris-Vincent added that his friend described ”the joy on the faces of those women, as never seen.” His friend however wondered why the gap between the rich and the poor keeps widening in Ghana without any real government social interventions to cushion the poor.

Chris-Vincent’s kind-hearted friend also quizzed about why women after childbirth become stranded in a government hospitals because they cannot pay their delivery bills and yet there is a National Health Insurance scheme said to be in place. While details of Chris-Vincent’s friend were not shared along with the post, he posted awe-inspiring images of his friend, his colleagues and the new mothers who were discharged after his friend paid GHC5,000.

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A friend of mine who is not rich by any standard and currently visiting Ghana from the UK went to the Korle-Bu hospital and what he saw crippled him. Women who had given birth are being kept there (literally being held prisoners of the hospital) because they cannot clear their delivery bills, he said. He paid 5,000 GHS for 6 women he does not know from anywhere—and they were soon discharged. The joy on the faces of those women, he described as never seen. He asked me this: so how come the gap between the rich and the poor keeps widening in Ghana—without any real government social interventions to cushion the poor? A woman will be kept after childbirth in a government hospital because she cannot pay her delivery bills. And yet there is a National Health Insurance scheme said to be in place. Why does this not cover every aspect of child birth? People are indeed suffering in Ghana and there doesn’t seem to be any light at the end of the tunnel. Imagine your mother giving birth to you and unable to foot her health bill, therefore you and your mother being held hostage or prisoners of the hospital in a 21st century Ghana—where government officials cruise around in expensive V8s and are u unexplainable rich. This same country has found money to build a national cathedral but cannot provide this basic relief for women—the cornerstone of its very existence. Think about this! —Chris-Vincent Agyapong

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From: yen.com.gh

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