Nigeria woman to pay N133 million to British hospital where she gave birth

A Nigerian woman who gave birth to twins through a cesarean section at a British hospital has escaped without paying her bill which is about N133 million.

- Another woman who gave birth to a quadruplet in 2015 reportedly ran away without paying her £319,895 hospital bill which is equivalent to about N102 million

A Nigerian woman who gave birth to twins at a British hospital has left behind a bill of £350,000 which is equivalent to about N133 million.

The woman, who has not been identified, had a cesarean section at Luton and Dunstable University Hospital and racked up £350,000 bill.

Nigerian mother escapes from British hospital after owing N133 million

A spokesman confirmed the hospital was owed £348,683 by the Nigerian mother who gave birth to twins in 2015. The woman had been transferred from another hospital nearby due to complications during the pregnancy and the babies spent two months on the paediatric intensive care unit.

The British government has been accused repeatedly of failing to clamp down on health tourism, which is thought to cost up to £280 million a year.

According to Daily Mail, the case at Luton and Dunstable university hospital was uncovered through a series of freedom of information requests sent by the Mail to all hospitals in England.

Luton and Dundtable is one of just three paediatric intensive care units in the East of England, and could not refuse treatment 'if there was a danger to life'.

The responses from 90 hospitals revealed that 13,077 overseas patients were treated in the UK in 2015-16, including 3,066 mothers who flew in to have their babies.

These women were responsible for some of the highest debts and a significant number are understood to have come from Nigeria.

In a similar case to Luton and Dunstable university hospital, Imperial College Hospitals in West London also said it was chasing a £319,895 bill for a woman who gave birth to triplets. Staff at the trust have since disclosed that this they looked after a 43-year-old Nigerian woman who gave birth to quads. She went into premature labour on the flight to London and one of the babies died.

The costs of caring for the surviving three infants have passed £100,000 and staff predict a final bill of half a million pounds.

Meanwhile, in Nigeria, another woman named Sarah has abandoned a set of twins at a hospital since December 16, 2016 on the pretext that her husband could not pay the hospital bills

Her husband however claims Sarah’s action did not arise from the fact that he couldn’t pay the money owed the hospital

It was however gathered that Sarah may have fled not only because of the hospital bills but because she didn’t plan to be pregnant with twins