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Do you have to pay for hospital care in Nigeria?
I was chatting to someone and they said that in Nigeria there are no free emergency healthcare services (like we have on the NHS here in the UK) and I just wondered if Nigerians have to pay for the basic healthcare we take for granted (like maternity or A&E)?
I tried Googling it but couldn't seem to find an answer for this. Any Nigerians out there can tell me for sure?
And if it's not free, what do you do if you are admitted due to an accident (eg. you're unconscious after a car accident) and yet have no method of paying any bill? What does the hospital do? Thanks.
Let me add that I am not being scammed and most certainly would never send money to anyone I haven't met, especially a Nigerian, nor am I thinking of travelling there. It is just an interesting question to me: If a country doesn't have free emergency healthcare, how do they enforce the payment of a bill if you are brought in unconscious and can't pay? I am safe in the UK where such an issue doesn't arise and I know in the USA there is medicare, but what about in Nigeria (or indeed other such countries), what does a hospital do?
7 Answers
- KittysueLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
You are talking to a scammer - why does every Nigerian romance scammer end up in hospital then needs money for medical treatment?? Let me guess - you met online. She claimed to be falling in love with you very quickly. She said she was coming to visit you, maybe to marry you. And did she get carjacked or in an accident on her way to the airport to visit you, or on her way to the Embassy to get her visa? This story is told thousands of times a year
Nigeria has a National Health Insurance Scheme http://www.nhis.gov.ng/
How would any hospital know upfront if you didn't have money to pay? You don't pay in advance for medical treatment. Even in a private hospital you are invoiced, usually 30 days after you are discharged and patients can work out a payment plan with the hospital to pay back the bills.
No government hospital in Nigeria can refuse to treat a patient in an emergency who does not have money. If that were the case, poor people would have no access to medical care
And if this person claims to be foreign, nobody would ever go to Nigeria without insurance.
I hope you haven't sent this person any money
- ?Lv 45 years ago
It's a scam. Check WikiAnswers to satisfy yourself. In Nigeria treatment cannot be refused because one does not have money. The patient will be treated and the form of payment will be arranged after.
- JamesLv 78 years ago
Let us put it this way. In Africa. You do not wish to go to a hospital that you do not pay. As you will be lucky to get food let alone cured. In most 3rd world Country's you may be able to find free care. But that do's not include free food and treatment.Maybe a free aspirin a day at most.
- 5 years ago
if a US citizen gets hurts in a auto accident unconscious they take him to the hospital. He is treated there after 30 days he is discharged. the man cannot pay the whole amount and they will not let him leave. what happens to that man? do they detained him at the hospital indefinitely? where can he go get help?
- 5 years ago
i ask you what patient for go to er so pay first or after pay i dont know nigeria much i dont like to fool person need to pay doctor
