He pawned his car to recover his son’s body from the hospital

Barini, whose photograph was taken as she walked with the lifeless body of her baby wrapped in a blue cloth in her arms, reflected on social media, speaking about her experiences.

Barini’s baby is being treated at the Halef al-Habtur Hospital in Akkar, northern Lebanon, due to health problems since birth.

2 thousand 400 dollars of expenses were removed

Claiming that the hospital called him and informed him that the baby had died, Barini said: “I went to the hospital to take my son’s body with me. The accounting lady told me that the hospital costs were $2,400. I didn’t object, but I had nothing more than $400. I gave the money to get the body, but the woman said that she couldn’t take the child to me without a guarantee (since she couldn’t afford it). she said she.

HE LEFT HIS CAR

Noting that the accounting woman asked him if he had a car, Barini continued:

“I didn’t say I had a car at the beginning. But when he offered to give me the baby’s body in exchange for pawning the car, I thought about it and gave him the car keys. She left her room and asked a doctor to qualify the car. He said it would cost him 2,000 or less. The woman gave me a document to take the child with me. And when she paid the rest of the bill, she would return the car keys. When I took the body and asked him how he would take the child home, when I approached him, I got the answer “take care”. I took the child and began to walk. Then I took a taxi.”

HOSPITAL EXPLANATION

Rava al-Ahdeb, General Manager of Khalaf al-Habtur Hospital, stated that the economic crisis in Lebanon and the depreciation of the lira against the dollar left citizens with great neglect, including in terms of health.

Arguing that Barini’s experience was a “big misunderstanding” caused by the crisis in the country, especially in the Akkar region, Ahdeb said the father was in a difficult situation and had been helped through charities for 25 years. days the baby was in the Intensive Care Unit.

Ahdeb said the accountant only asked Barini for a guarantee to pay the rest of the money, adding that she did not think this event would have such a big impact on social media.

Ahdeb said that when he found out about the incident, he called Barini to express his condolences and told him to go to the hospital to get his car keys, and that he did not approve of the accountant’s behaviour.

Muin Mahmud, one of the emergency department doctors who priced the car, defended himself by saying that “the incident was misinterpreted, the accountant asked how much the car would cost,” and answered the question because he was in the car trade. cars as a side job. (AA)