The orphan

A woman was wheeled into the labour room looking tired and pale and the nurses and midwife rushes into the labour room, the nurses helpes her undress and she was naked while just a cloth was used in covering her from her breast and and her legs were held up and wide and the midwife says to her.

" Madam please push" the woman in labour tried to push but she could only tried she had no strenght to push".

The woman wheeled to the labour room had been in labour in one small hospital managed by just a single and a quack nurse due to no money, she didn't register in a better hospital because she and her husband can't even afford a three square meal not to talk of affording an hospital bill.

It was when the nurse couldn't handle the situation again that she quickly the husband that she should be taken to a nearby hospital.

She had been labouring for over 7 hours before being wheeled to the hospital, she was tired pushing out her baby before taken to the bigger hospital.

" Madam please try and push harder " the midwife says but she couldn't and the midwife removes the handgloves from her hand and dresses and washes her hand and goes to the doctor in his office to give him report while the doctor was studying online.

" Sir the woman brought in recently for child bearing is currently so weak and I don't think she can push" midwife says to the doctor and the doctor stood up and follows the midwife into the labour room and he sees how tired and pale the woman was.

" Where is her husband? He asks the midwife.

" He is outside the word sir" the midwife replied.

"Please tell him to see me in my office and nurses please prepare the theatre" the doctor leaves the labour room and walks out of the hospital ward while the midwife goes to meet the woman husband at the reception to meet a man dressed in a faded shirt and trouser and a rubber slippers.

" Mr Akilo, the doctor would like to see you" the man stood up.

" As my wife put to bed? he asks.

" please sir come with me, the doctor would want to meet you sir" she says and he follows her and she leads him into the doctors office.

" Sir this is Mr Ben Akilo " she says.

" Thanks ,you can take your leave" he says.

"Sir , the truth is your wife is very very weak, she cannot push out the baby on her own so which means we have to operate her and if we do not start this operation very soon, we might loose both mother and child but if we have your go ahead and a deposit of atleast 40k we would save both life but if we waste too much time we might loose both life or try our best to save both lives, sir the ball is in your court" the court.

" please doctor help me to save my wife and my child , please ", says Ben.

" Mr Ben Akilo go and try , maybe you can get money ", said the doctor. .

" Alright , i will go and try aa you said ", ssid Ben .

" That will be better " said the doctor.

" i will soon come back " said Ben.

Then Ben went home , he talk to his landlord, no luck, he went to all his friends , no one borrows him money , he finally went to his mother , the poor woman don't have money , but the mother went to contributions collector , she explains how urgent they needed the money , the man borrowed them 60k and he rush down to thhe hospital, where he met his wife very weak, no single strength in hrr again , so Ben entered into the doctors office tells him this what he have for now, but he promised that he will pay the remaining money very soon , then, doctor directed him to the cashier office where he go and pay the money and collected receipt, and he took the receipt to the doctor, then the doctor has already told the nurses to prepare for cicerian section for the woman .

So they wheeled her to the theatre, while one of the midwife was with her

" Comw with me " says the doctor to another midwife,

' alright sir , right on my way " says the other midwife.

" how is her condition now ?" asks the doctor.

" the condition is depreciating every minute " ssys the midwife.

As the doctor brought out the baby from her womb, she gave up the ghost , and midwife cleaned the baby, and the doctor went to meet mr Ben Akilo , he was even happy to see the doctor and he asks about his wife condition , and the doctor told him that he should take heart that they can only save the baby but his wife couldn't make it .

"He interrupted the doctor , doctor ,what are you trying to say ," asks mr Ben Akilo.

" calm down , what am trying to say is that , she cannot make it , only the baby survive..

Then he broke into tears , crying uncontrollably till he became unconscious , when he was unconscious, the midwife checked his trouser pocket and brought out his small cellphone and call his brother to come to the hospital immediately , not too long the brother arrived and saw his brother on the bed , and the brother said , again, after some minutes ,he woke up, a nd , he saw his brother beside him , then the doctor sent a midwife to the husband of the deceased and his brother to come to his office.

" mr Akilo, you need to be strong," says the doctor .

" thank you , i didn't know that , that's how she is going to leave me ".ssys mr Ben Akilo. .

"What ia there now is how you are going to make an arrangement to remove the copse from our hospital ", ssys the doctor .

"Okay , i will need to call her sister", ssys mr Ben Akilo.

"Do what you know that it's necessary , so that, you will not pay another money again ", says the doctor.