ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Mrs. Ngozi Uzodike, a lecturer at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, has been delivered of septuplets (seven babies); five girls and two boys.
Unfortunately, one of the babies (a girl), has died.
Uzodike works in the Department of Business Administration.
She was delivered of the babies at Obijackson Women and Children Hospital, Okija, on Sunday.
The family of the lecturer is seeking funds to offset the N19 million bill they had incurred at the hospital, The Punch reports.
The new mum while speaking with Punch on Wednesday, lamented that she had not been paid salaries since she started working at the institution in December 2020.
Her husband, Mr. Celestine Uzodike, has called on the Federal Government of Nigeria to pay the two years salary arrears owed to the new mother, and also come to their aid.
According to him: “The babies came out prematurely at 26 weeks and the hospital said they will need to be placed in the intensive care unit and each of them will cost ₦3 million. One of them has died, remaining six babies, that is why they billed us like that.”