Three patients at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital reportedly sneaked out of the health facility without paying the balance of their bills running into hundreds of thousands of naira.
The patients, it was gathered, were due for discharge, but were left in the hospital because they could not pay the balance of their bills.
The gate was only opened when doctors and other health workers came in to do their jobs while only a few visitors were allowed into the unit on self-recouIt was learnt that one of the private security personnel was queried for failing to notice when the patients sneaked out of the facility.
However, some visitors to the unit, who came to see their ailing relatives, were barred from entering the hospital the following day because of the incident , patient run away because of increased in bills of hospitalizations As a result lack of finance to pay for the bills, and some of the I'll patient at home been scared away because of increased in hospital bills which they can't afford to pay, government should look into the unit of health care to at least decrease the hospital bills payments in the country, because is not everyone is capable of affording a given bills. eaglestare.blogspot.com
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