Lagos based association, Elite Fitness Club, Friday, November 9, visited the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, NAUTH, Nnewi, Anambra State, where it paid off hospital bills of patients, who had no means of offsetting their bills.
Anaedooline gathered reliably that many patients in the hospital stayed longer than normal at their various wards, after recovery because of their inability to pay their bills.
The group, who on arrival, paid a courtesy visit to the Chief Medical Director of the Hospital, Prof. Anthony Igwuegbe, also went round different wards in the hospital where they met and chat with patients.
Addressing newsmen, the leader of the team, Chief Amobi Ike, said the visit was part of their annual rituals whereby they visit hospitals or destitute homes to give succour to the needy.
According to him, a total of one hundred patients were targeted to benefit from the largesse; and that the group would spend approximately five million naira on the “redemption mission.”
While expressing appreciation to the group for their magnanimity in offsetting bills of “very poor patients” in the hospital; the Chief Medical Director, Prof. Anthony Igwuegbe, said, “Many patients remained in their various wards for too long after recovery because of their inability to pay their bills. Some of them hardly feed well, while some, for lack of space, are no more on hospital beds; so you see the reason why such people should go to their various homes.
“This hospital has been facing challenges of patients not being able to offset their bills after treatment, and it has been affecting the hospital’s purse negatively; this is why we are grateful to Elite Fitness Club, for their intervention. We also look forward to receiving such magnanimity from other spirited individuals and groups.”
One of the patients, who benefited from the offer, Anthony Ilozo, commended the group, while also thanking Providence for relieving him of the burden of the heavy hospital bill.
Ilozo, who had recovered from a major operation, said he was in the hospital for additional two months beyond the time he was discharged, waiting patiently that his family would raise fund to offset his bill.
PICTURE: The CMD (middle) with representatives of the group during the visit.
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