Dubai’s Crown Prince, Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has paid the hospital expenses of a Nigerian mother and her newborn quadruplets who were stranded in Dubai with mounting medical bills.
Suliyat Adulkareem, 29, gave birth to the babies, two boys, and two girls, at the Latifa Hospital for Women and Children on July 1st.
Tijani Abdulkareem, father of the quadruplets said they were born prematurely at nearly 31 weeks through an emergency C-section and placed on ventilators at the neonatal intensive care unit of the hospital.
However, they had no medical insurance and racked up about $108,000 in medical expenses since the quadruplets were born.
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Tijani Abdulkareem added that The Nigerian community and other nationals in Dubai rallied around them to help raise AED 42,000 (around $11,500) to pay part of the bills, the Crown Prince stepped in to pay the bills after he came across the initial CNN report highlighting the family’s story.
He was moved by their plight and informed his office to assist the family.
Editor: Ena Agbanoma
