Shema’u Sani Labaran, a Kano-based woman had laboured for over six hours at Abdullahi Wase Specialist Hospital before she died as a result of negligence by staff over unconfirmed credit alerts.
Her husband, Malam Bello Fancy, told Freedom Radio in Kano that he made transfers twice to the hospital’s account but the deceased was left in pain until the credit alerts were confirmed.
Fancy further that explained that the hospital rejected his old naira notes and also had no Point of Sale (POS) terminal. He would be advised to transfer the bill via his account. After making the transfer, it was not immediately confirmed, Fancy said, adding it took more than three hours to confirm the alert.
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Fancy had to transfer another money when the doctor told him the deceased would under an operation. This was not also verified on time and the deceased continued child labour in pain.
“My wife walked into the hospital from our house, but before they received the alert, the pains had doubled and she was already bleeding. Still, they didn’t touch her until after three hours when they received the alert,” the bereaved husband said. “After they admitted her, they discovered that she could not deliver by herself; that she must undergo an operation. I agreed and paid the money; still through transfer. It also delayed for an additional three hours before they received the alert and operated on my wife. Shockingly, the baby was brought out dead and the mother also died.”
But Dr Rahila Garba, Chief Medical Director of the hospital denied the allegation, saying it was not true. According to Daily Trust, other patients in the hospital confirmed the incident, alleging that they experienced a similar scenario.
However, spokesman for the Kano State Hospital Management Board, Malam Ibrahim Abdullahi, said the board received information about the incident and would commence an investigation into it.
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“We are not certain about the cause of the incident,” he had said. “We just got the information. But we have commenced an investigation into the matter.”
In the past week, Kano State Government threatened to arrest business owners and residents rejecting old naira notes. This came amid the legal tussle between some state governors and federal government over ban of the old naira notes.
The Central of Bank of Nigeria had redesigned the country’s high denominations — N1,000, N500 and N200 — as part of the efforts to foster cashless economy with the initial deadline as January 31 when the old notes would ceased being accepted as legal tenders.
The policy was greeted with public outcry and the federal government extended the deadline to February 10. Yet, hardships waxed stronger in the country as Nigerians called for amednement of the policy. But WikkiTimes understands that the CBN Governor, Godwin Emiefele and President Muhammadu Buhari wanted the policy to survive regardless of the outcry.
In what could be interpreted as party interest, some All Progressives Congress (APC) governors — Yahaya Bello (Kogi State), Nasir el-Rufai (Kaduna State) and Bello Matawalle (Zamfara State) — filed a lawsuit before supreme court to challenge Buhari and CBN. Other governors would later join the legal feud.
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The supreme court in an ex parte judgment on February 8, ruled out the proposed deadline, noting that the redesigned old notes should keep being recognized as legal tenders. But CBN disregard the law as commercial banks stooped the cash swap on February 10, urging customers to take their old monies to the CBN pending the supreme court’s ruling on the case on February 15..
The apex court, however, adjourned the case to February 25 with the order that the old being accepted as legal tenders.
In his speech during a national broadcast yesterday, Buhari also disregarded the CBN as he only extended deadline for old N200 notes by 60 days. He remarked that N200 coexist with new redesigned notes until April 10.
