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The management of Babcock University Teaching Hospital, Ilisan Remo, has launched a search party for the children of one of its patients, 81-year-old Mr Maurice Okpenyong, who has been abandoned at its medical facility.
This was according to a statement issued by the Director of Communication of the university, Dr Joshua Suleiman, and made available to journalists on Saturday.
Suleiman said Okpenyong was brought to the hospital by his children (a man and a woman), who have now refused to come to take him home after the hospital signed his discharge in December 2023.
The abandoned patient, who is a native of Obot Akara Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, reportedly came in with a Repeat Suprapublic Cystostomy diagnosis.
It was stated that the medical bill of the patient as of December 20, 2023, when he was discharged was N399, 320 but his continuous stay in the hospital till now has raised the bills to N1,279,350.
The statement partly read, “The whereabouts of the patient’s son (Lawrence) and daughter are unknown to the management of BUTH.
“The hospital management said it had teamed up with the police in Ilishan, Area F, and Bariga to look for his son at both his official residence and private address without success.
