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Nigeria’s Patient ‘Prisoners’

The hospital patients in Nigeria who are not allowed to leave when they cannot pay their medical bills.
One young mother who gave birth to her son via caesarean section was kept in a small room at the hospital with her baby for 16 months, when she and her family could not afford to pay doctors. Another family who lost their young son, were unable to collect the body until they paid up. And these are not isolated cases…

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