Koforidua: ‘Irresponsible men’ abandon their wives after giving birth – Midwife cries out
The Eastern Regional midwife in charge of the Neonatal unit at the Koforidua Regional Hospital, Mrs. Joana Yorke Amoah has revealed that many men abandon their wives in the hospital after delivery.
According to her, the men take the decision to leave their wives at the unit over their inability to meet the bill conditions.
She revealed that because most pregnant women attend the Neonatal unit financially unprepared, they are unable to foot the bill therefore such cases are referred to social welfare to contact their family members to settle their debts.
Mrs. Joana Yorke Amoah said this when MTN Ghana as part of its annual Yello Care initiative donated some hampers to support some new babies born on Christmas day at the Regional Hospital.
“Some of them have insurance, it’s just a few who don’t have, and sometimes too they are not well prepared when you ask if the money that they are having is not enough.
“They cannot foot the bills so sometimes we encourage them to deposit what they have then we later call the family members to come and pay the rest for them.
“With the financial aspect their husbands don’t show up, they just come and dump them here and then they leave them, we take their numbers and call them and they don’t respond to us,” she disclosed.
She said 9 new babies were born on the Christmas Day (25th of December) this year out of which six women were taken through a Cesarean Section while the other three delivered on their own.
Mr. Mohammed Haruna Yamba, who led the MTN Team noted that the donation forms part of their annual ritual that MTN always do just to welcome the newborn babies.
He explained that MTN Ghana Yello Care is supporting 25 babies born on Christmas day and their mothers only in the region with hampers which consist of soaps, diapers, detergents, detail as well as airtime and other basic needs necessary to take care of newborn babies.
The Yello Care team further went to Koforidua SDA Hospital and St. Joseph Hospital and distributed hampers to some mothers and babies born on Christmas day.
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