There was confusion at Desalu Street, Odo-Ona, in Ibadan South West Local Government Area of Oyo State on Friday, as a sick woman identified as Blessing Ayeni was dropped at the frontage of her husband’s shop by officials of an undisclosed hospital. Newspeakonline reports.
According to Nigerian Tribune, officials of the hospital claimed that Blessing had been abandoned at the hospital since 2023.
The hospital noted that, for this reason, it was left with no choice other than bringing her to the known address of her husband, which is his shop where he sells alcoholic drinks.
The medium quoted an eyewitness, Remilekun Tawose, to have said that representatives of the hospital told some residents that they had on a series of occasions visited the husband to come and take responsibility for the medical bills of his sick wife without any positive response from him.
The representatives, according to Tawose, also claimed that the immediate family members of Blessing initially showed up at the hospital but later stopped for reasons unknown to the hospital’s authority.
“The reason we don’t know what to do at the moment is that officials of the hospital told us that we should not move closer to the sick woman because the ailment she is suffering from is contagious,” Tawose said.
It was gathered that efforts to locate Blessing’s husband proved abortive, as he was nowhere to be found and his shop was under lock.