It was a glorious day for the Orajiobi’s family, as Enugu State Commissioner for Innovation, Science and Technology, Prince Lawrence Ezeh, secured the release of Joan Orajiobi and her triplets, detained by an Enugu private hospital.
The nursing mother and her babies have been held due to inability to pay delivery bills.
Orajiobi, delivered triplets at Praise and Grace Hospital and Maternity, Enugu, on New Year day.
However, she has since been detained by the hospital over the family’s inability to pay delivery bills.
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Following this, she had pleaded to Nigerians and organisations for assistance to enable her settle the bill and go home with her special gift.
Paying the bill on Saturday, the Commissioner who also had triplets, said he was touched by the story as reported by NAN.
“You know that my wife and I have a set of triplets, two boys and a girl who are already in secondary school now.
So I was touched by the story when I read it on Friday,” he said.
Confirming the payment, the Medical Director of the hospital, Dr Shedrack Emeribe, who was absent when the Commissioner visited, said he received a call that the Commissioner had cleared all the bills.
The mother and her new born babies, two girls and a boy, had been detained since January 8, for inability to pay the hospital bills totalling N352,350.
The mother of triplets, a native of Nnewi in Anambra, living at Ologo Quarters, Uwani Enugu, had told NAN that upon discharge, the hospital held her and her babies pending when the bill would be completed.
Orajobi said the total bill of the hospital was N482,350, but her husband was only able to pay N130,000, leaving the balance of N352,350.
She said the bill was high because she gave birth to the triplets through a Caesarean.
She thanked the Commissioner for his benevolence and for coming to rescue them.
Aside from the Commissioner clearing the bill, the family also received some cash donations from some Nigerians for the babies.
