By Abimbola Ogunnaike
A pregnant woman, Shema’u Sani Labaran, has died in the Abdullahi Wase Specialist Hospital in Kano as a result of delay in transfer made from a bank to the hospital.
The negligence from doctors, which resulted in the death of the pregnant woman, was as a result of the new naira policy crisis introduced by the Central Bank of Nigeria CBN).
The late woman’s husband, Malam Bello Fancy, said her death was as a result of delay in transfer made to the bank and claimed that the doctors didn’t attend to his wife for more than three hours.
Speaking to Freedom Radio, Malam Fancy, said he took his wife to the hospital when she was about to deliver, but that the hospital rejected his old naira notes and also had no POS, hence that they asked him to deposit the money in their account.
According to him, he claimed that he transferred the money and got debited, the doctors on duty didn’t touch his wife as they said they must see the alert in their account, which took almost three hours.
“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.
“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,” Fancy said.
Few days ago, Kano State Government warned marketers, supermarkets and the public against rejecting old naira notes in the state, saying it would shut down and revoke the licence of any business enterprise found in the act.
However, thegazellenews.com gathered from the state residents that some institutions, including government-owned, filling stations and marketers have been rejecting the old notes, including hospitals that battle with emergencies.
