Nairobi woman representative Esther Passaris visited the Kenyatta National Hospital and revealed a number of patients that are forced to sleep on the floor as they have been detained at the hospital for failure to pay the bills.
Many poor Kenyans men, women and children alike are held hostage in our public hospitals due to lack of insurance and their inability to meet acquired medical costs. Mary Wanjiku is one of many women detained along the corridors. @UKenyatta #ReleaseDetainedPatients pic.twitter.com/W1oWAXiFab
— Esther Muthoni Passaris (@EstherPassaris) December 24, 2017
She noted that the patients were mostly survivors of road carnage and lacked insurance and their families could not afford their bills
Herbert was involved in an accident in Eastleigh. He has been treated and detained so he now sleeps on the floor in Kenyatta National Hospital with many others due to his inability to pay the hospital bills. @UKenyatta #ReleaseDetainedPatients pic.twitter.com/2jKJlGjmiZ
— Esther Muthoni Passaris (@EstherPassaris) December 24, 2017
Esther Passaris called upon the president to call off the New year party at state house and instead direct those funds to clear bills for the patients at Kenyatta National Hospital.
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The woman representative highlighted that journalists had been denied entry into the facility and she asked who was being protected by the hospital.
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