{"id":763330,"date":"2019-12-12T08:07:25","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T08:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/12\/12\/man-dies-after-hospital-refused-to-treat-him-without-police-report\/"},"modified":"2019-12-12T08:07:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T08:07:25","slug":"man-dies-after-hospital-refused-to-treat-him-without-police-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/12\/man-dies-after-hospital-refused-to-treat-him-without-police-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Dies After Hospital Refused To Treat Him Without Police Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_729977\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-729977\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-729977\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Capture-74.png\" alt=\"Man dies after hospital refused to treat him\" width=\"560\" height=\"558\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-729977\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Man dies after hospital refused to treat him<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A Nigerian man Michael Ikyaator has recounted how his uncle died after the hospital they took him to refuse to treat him without a police report.<\/p>\n<p>According to Michael, his uncle had slumped and when they could produce a police report has demanded by the hospital, he died.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:\u00a0Full Story Of Journalist Who Slumped, Died While Dancing At Reunion Party In Edo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read his story below;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>My uncle slumped yesterday in Abuja and was rushed to the Asokoro District Hospital, the hospital refused to treat him and insisted on a police report, he died in the car he was brought in, he wasn\u2019t shot or stabbed. What have we done to the Nigerian healthcare system?<\/p>\n<p>Not too long after we lost Moradeun Balogun to the same careless system, another innocent Nigerian has to die over a senseless and heartless policy. Who invented the police report policy and why do they still insist on it?<\/p>\n<p>He wasnt in any form of violence, passed out, why did we need to bring a police report??? All of the hospital staff at Asokoro District Hospital refused to treat until he died in car he was brought in. I am lost for words here.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-729979\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1-13.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"588\" height=\"561\"  \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-729980\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"581\" height=\"274\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man dies after hospital refused to treat him A Nigerian man Michael Ikyaator has recounted how his uncle died after the hospital they took him to refuse to treat him without a police report. 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