PREGNANT women receiving antenatal medical attention at the Ondo State Specialist Hospital Akure, Ondo State, on Thursday protested against the increase in the cost of services at the state government-owned hospital, disrupting operations at the hospital. The pregnant women numbering over 200 blocked the main entrance of the hospital preventing patients, workers and people from entering the hospital, hindering vehicular movement at the ever-busy hospital road for more than two hours. “We were asked to be paying N500 per consultancy session but we suddenly discovered that we are to pay N25,000 for delivery. ”Addressing the protesters, the Chief Medical Director of the General Hospital Dr Moses Adewole, who denied the development, said there was no increase in the cost of delivery of the pregnant women in the hospital. He, however, said the newly introduced N500 for every antenatal appointment was introduced by the management to subsidise the running cost in the hospital, while he appealed to the pregnant women to cooperate with the hospital.

Source: Nigerian Tribune April 05, 2018 12:56 UTC