Yaounde: Woman, 1-month-old baby blocked in hospital

Fabiola is blocked in a hospital in the Biyem-Assi neighborhood for one and a half month now.

Fabiola is currently held against her will in the Centre Hospitalier Chirurgical Maloine, located in the Biyem-Assi neighborhood in the Yaounde VI sub-division. The 23-year-old lady gave birth to a baby boy in the hospital on 8 March 2016. Since then, the young mother could not find her family.

Fabiola had to give birth after a cesarean section. Which increased the costs of childbirth and a half months later, she still could not settle her debt. She was met on April 18 by a reporter from Le Jour newspaper. The newspaper reported the words of the girl in its issue of April 20, 2016: “I arrived at the hospital on March 7.

One day later I gave birth by Caesarean section. I’m still here because I have not paid my bill. This bill was more than FCFA 390,000. I have already paid part, and it remains FCFA 120,000 to settle. “

A sequestered young mother? The head of the clinic refuses to see things this way. Dr. Blaise Fotso was approached by the reporter of the newspaper. “This girl is in a room with two beds, she uses electrical power, water, she has a TV in her room she goes as she pleases nobody has holds her. In this situation it is our hospital that has a shortfall because even her room is not charged for a few days now “he says.

While waiting for the missing amount, Fabiola spends her days in the hospital while expecting good news from her parents who, in his own words, “are trying“. Mother for the second time, Fabiola says she is single.