07 Jul Visit A Hospital Today collaborates with Jumia Employees Pay Bills of Patients at Ikorodu General Hospital
We collaborated with the employees at Jumia to provide financial support to patients in Ikorodu General Hospital.
To commemorate this year’s African Women’s Day and in line with the global theme which addresses maternal and neonatal mortality in Africa, the female employees at Jumia Nigeria rallied to support new mothers and patients at the Ikorodu General Hospital who, due to unpaid bills, hadn’t been allowed to go home.
Observed yearly on July 31st, the African Union’s Women’s Day was created to raise awareness for the health risks low-income women face due to lack of quality maternity services.
Jumia’s public relations and communications manager, Mr Olukayode Kolawole said:
“When I heard about the plight of these new mothers and other patients who couldn’t meet the hospital discharge requirement, I sought for support from our female staff, especially those who are mothers, to contribute towards raising the sum”, he said
“This collective effort towards helping other women in need through their financial resources reached far beyond what we set out to raise”. Kolawole described the financial intervention on behalf of the new mothers as “kind and thoughtful”
Since the outreach, the patients have been discharged. Founder of Visit-A-Hospital NGO, Miss Aderonke Rene Ahmed, said hundreds of new mothers and women are always stuck in most hospitals because of lack of funds to pay for their medical bills.
“Every week, we’re in different hospitals providing financial support for these patients. We thank the wonderful women at Jumia Nigeria for sponsoring this month’s hospital visit”, she said. “Until now, these new mothers had been stuck at the general hospital with their babies for a few weeks because they couldn’t pay their medical bills. Jumia’s intervention provided succour for them in the nick of time”, she concluded.
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