Man abandoned in hospital for 23 years still waiting for relatives

Sylvester Onyango, 48 a patient who has been in the ward at Kisumu County hospital, then District hospital for twenty three years after he was diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy. He comes from Kendubay. (Photo: Denish Ochieng/ Standard)

Sylvester Onyango sits outside Kisumu County Hospital’s psychiatric ward every morning to bask in the sun.

Nurses say Mr Onyango never fails to take his daily walks in the expansive hospital corridors, often stopping to chat with the workers, whom he knows by name which does not come as a surprise since he has been a patient for 23 years