Mrs Liyatu alleged that the National Hospital, Abuja, and other government medical facilities had denied their pregnant members access to medical care following their inability to pay bills.
Mrs Liyatu
Ayuba, women leader of the Internally Displaced Persons, Durumi camp, Garki
Abuja has narrated how she became a midwife in the camp following rejection of
their pregnant members in government hospitals.
The women
leader, who was displaced from Borno State after the Boko Haram insurgents
killed her husband in 2015, revealed that she has successfully assisted in
delivering about 125 children in the camp.
According
to her, a lady in the camp who needed a cesarean section died in the National
Hospital after they were unable to pay for the operation.
“Few years
ago, a lady came to this camp and she was 7 months pregnant. She came barefoot
with only a wrapper and she didn’t have a bacha (hut) so she was squatting on
another person’s own.
“The next
three days, she was in labour and we took her to the National Hospital in Abuja
here and we were told to bring 100,000 but we told them that we do not have
such money that they should please try and save her life.
“They said
they can’t do anything, that we IDPs are disturbing them. That was how the
woman and her baby died in the hospital. They even refused to release the corps
for us because we could not pay,” they disclosed.
According
to her, she was angered by the incident which prompted her into midwifery to
save the lives of other women in the camp.
“I learnt
how to be a midwife from my grandmother. I started delivering babies on January
2, 2015, so from that year till date, I have delivered a total of 125 babies in
this camp,” she stated.
Mrs Liyatu
told our correspondent that she has been sensitizing households in the camp to
embrace family planning due to lack of funds to train the children.
“I have
been telling them that people who have four to five children should do family
planning because we are facing a lot in this camp, we are not collecting
salary.
“And these
children are not going to school and women keep getting pregnant. God will hold
us responsible for the children that we are bringing to this world without
training them,” she noted.
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