*Seeks help for N7.5m medical bills
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When Chidinma got married to her heart throb, Mr. Tochukwu Amaechi, a petty trader nearly a decade ago, she didn’t know the issue of childlessness will beckon, at any time, especially bearing in mind her very tender age of 19 then. But nine years after mutual co-habitation, Chidinma’s home was still bereft of babies’ cries to make her joy full.
This prompted both man and wife to embark vigorously on ceaseless supplication to God for a divine intervention. And as fate would have it, Chidinma was confirmed pregnant before the middle of last year.
Then came another issue. A scan discovered that she was carrying not a baby, two, or even three, but five! Her ante-natal experience was heralded with what looks like beholding an overloaded cart being pushed forth.
When the 28-year-old young lady who completed her national youth service programme just last July, finally put to bed at Life International Hospital, in Awka, Anambra State, Thursday, it was by Caesarian session and the miracle babies – three boys and two girls, had to be incubated for, at least one month, at the intensive care unit of the medical facility.
Now that the chorus has become deafeningly louder than the lead vocal, Chidinma is in desperate need of help to settle her outstanding medical bills said to be estimated at N7.5m.
Mrs Ebele Oranekwu, the nursing mother’s elder sister, who spoke with journalists at the hospital, disclosed that the bill for the incubators alone is N250,000 per day, adding that the babies were expected to be there for about 30 days.
She said, “The bill amounted to about N7.5 million aside other huge bills already accumulated in the past two months of managing the delicate pregnancy at the hospital.
“We’re therefore calling on philanthropists, government and non-governmental organisations to come to our aid to enable us offset the huge medical bills, so we can reap the full benefits of God’s blessings upon our family.”
One of the caregivers who prefered anonymity, assured that the babies and their mother were responding very well to treatment and only needed financial help.
The nursing mother could be reached at: Mrs Chidnma Anthonia Amaechi through the account details…3093053283, First Bank Plc./SHARE THIS
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