Senators have raised concerns about the detention of patients and bodies in situations where families are unable to pay medical bills, especially in private hospitals. “I am further perturbed by the current story of a family in Gatuikira, Kiambu County, which in March was forced to hold the burial of their son without the body,” Mbito reckoned. “He had been undergoing treatment for Leukemia for five and a half months before he passed on,’ the senator said. Mbito said it was unconstitutional and unacceptable by any standards for a family to have to bury an empty a coffin because of inability to raise the hospital bill is. “This is a very serious issue because we have indigents; people who cannot pay and will not pay.

Source: The Star April 28, 2020 12:00 UTC