For Temitope Sanni, the birth of a set of triplets has become more of a curse than blessing: Shortly after they were born, the babies, all boys, died one after the other. Reason being that she and her husband could not raise the N4,000 required of them to buy drugs.
Because of the family’s indigent condition, she delivered the babies at home... In the parlour of their Face-Me-I-Face-You house at Ilogbo, a town close to Sango-Ota, Ogun State.
The home delivery was carried out by her niece. Seeing that the kids were too fragile, the mother and father were advised to take them to a clinic. At a nearby clinic, Damisile Medical Centre, the family was advised to rush the babies to a general hospital.
With N2,500 as all they could gather, the family rushed the babies to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), but were told that there were no beds to admit the babies and their mother.
The mother and father dashed out of LASUTH and went to the Federal Government-owned Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH). By the time they arrived at LUTH, one of the babies had died. At LUTH, they were told to go buy some drugs for the remaining two boys. The total cost of the drugs was put at N4,000. They couldn't raise N4,000 and nobody in the hospital was willing to help.
According to Nigerian Compass, having paid transport fare from their home, first to LASUTH and then to LUTH, the total money left on the mother, a petty trader, and her husband was N1,850.
In frustration, they left for home hoping to raise money from family friends. By the time they got home some 30 minutes after, another of the boys had died. Few hours after, the third also died. So sad!
