Popular Nigerian Dancer Dies During Childbirth

Popular dancer, choreographer has died exactly 20
days after her wedding.

Kemi Omotoyinbo, who is also partly an actress, was
said to have died during childbirth. The beautiful lady
who was famous for dancing for several popular
musicians including Pasuma, KWAM 1 and Shina
Peters, died in a private hospital in Lagos two days
ago, October 1st, exactly 20 days after her wedding
to husband Godwin Eloanyi, which was on September
13th.
Linda Ikeji reports that friends of the deceased made
it known that Kemi was in and out of labour for
several days in a private hospital which made the
doctor to resolve to C&S. The Cesarian operation
was however said to cost N450k in which the doctor
demanded an initial deposit of N300k before anything
was done.
The husband who could not come up with the money
immediately, begged the hospital management to
carry on with the operation, promising to pay the
next day (October 1st) but the hospital insisted on
the deposit and refused to carry out the operation.
Sadly, Kemi passed away last night.
Here is how one of the deceased’s friends
explained what happened to Kemi:
“Kemi wouldn’t have died if the doctors did pay
attention to her. She was in labour for several days
and was asked to pay certain amount of money
before she could be operated upon. The truth is that
Kemi was in labour for over one week. She tried in
vain to give birth the normal way but the baby just
didn’t come.
“Eventually the doctor told her she would have to go
through C&S. It was termed emergency C&S. The
hospital told her husband that they would have to
pay a sum of 450,000 for her to be operated upon.
He also said that before anything could be done they
would have to make a deposit of 300,000. The
husband made several efforts to raise 300,000 but
deposited all he had. He begged the doctors to
please go ahead with the operation and would pay
before the next day. That was on October 1st , the
night she died.”
“Kemi’s husband said he would pay the money the
next day but the doctor refused and stated
categorically that he would not move an inch else he
pays 300,000. It was at that point Kemi decided to
forward messages to people she knows so she could
get help. She got responses that money would be
made available to her the next day. On hearing that
the husband went to beg the doctors again, still they
refused. No bank was opened and nothing could be
done until Thursday October 2nd but unfortunately
she gave up the ghost that night. My point is, the
doctors knew she had to go through emergency C&S.
they could have saved her life and get the money
later. Nigeria is a very bad country I must confess.”
one of her friends said sadly.
It would be recalled that just recently, an actress,
Ijeoma Okorie, who is a member of Actors Guild of
Nigeria, AGN, Rivers State chapter, died during
childbirth alongside her twin babies .
This is just to bad of our Nigerian doctors.