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Summary: Forty-three indigent pregnant and new mothers in Ogun state have received free emergency surgeries and hospital bills clearance from a United Kingdom-based Nigerian entrepreneur and healthcare professional, Toba Ogunremi. The fund covered critical obstetric cases, cesarean sections, eclampsia, prolonged labour, post-delivery complications, and hospital clearance bills.
Forty-three indigent pregnant and new mothers in Ogun state have received free emergency surgeries and hospital bills clearance from a United Kingdom-based Nigerian entrepreneur and healthcare professional, Toba Ogunremi. This beneficiary intervention was announced by the entrepreneur’s media office on Sunday, April 3, 2026.
According to Mr Tobi, the humanitarian gesture was a direct effort to curb maternal mortality in Nigeria. The fund covered critical obstetric cases, cesarean sections, eclampsia, prolonged labour, post-delivery complications, and hospital clearance bills. The women were chosen based on immediate needs, the doctor’s recommendation, and from selected hospitals across the state. The initiative cost tens of millions of naira, with all funds directed toward patient care.
The entrepreneur explained further that most of the beneficiaries were retained in the hospital due to relatively small outstanding balances, financial barriers, the family’s inability to raise funds, and poverty.
“We found mothers who had just given birth but were held back because they couldn’t pay. Some needed urgent surgeries and had no one to help,” he disclosed.
He urged Nigerians to support vulnerable women, stressing that many deaths occur not due to a lack of medical expertise but the inability to afford care. He emphasised that his focus on maternal health was driven by the devastating impact of losing women during childbirth.
“A woman dying in childbirth is not just a statistic; it is a family tragedy. No woman should die while giving life,” he stated.
