Agony of patients locked in hospitals over medical bills

Mr James Obonyo, who had been detained in a private hospital in Nakuru after he failed to offset medical bill. [Caroline Chebet/Standard]

They have been locked up in isolated rooms, subjected to 24-hour security surveillance and starved. This is the suffering patients at two private hospitals in Nakuru town have been subjected to after failing to clear medical bills.

It has emerged that patients who fail to pay bills are moved from wards to "detention" rooms.