Mothers Trapped In Hospital With Huge Unpaid Bills
We are 3 mothers who have been stuck in hospital over unpaid bills for almost two months now. Our newborns were referred to @PoplarHospke in Ngara, Starehe Constituency during the doctor‘s strike, and were admitted to their Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) facilities. My baby spent 10 days in the NICU and was discharged on 28th April with a bill amounting to 1.2 million shillings. The other ladies were also discharged with bills amounting to 1.5 million and 2.5 million shillings, respectively.
The thing is, we have tried to reason with the hospital to allow us to go home after we sign agreements on repayment plans but the hospital has continually refused. They have also offered unreasonable terms that our guarantors would not agree to. We have to pay 80% of our bills for them to accept security, and sign an agreement to allow us to leave.
On my part, we had gotten a guarantor who was willing to offer his car, valued at over one million, and we had settled around 400,000 shillings of my bill. They want us to pay the remaining 700,000 shillings within two months, for them to accept the car as security and sign the agreement. We had asked for an extension of time since that period is too short but they refused and our guarantor pulled out.
For the other ladies, they refused any security until 80% of the bill was paid. We are honestly desperate as all avenues have failed us and all we seek is to have our little ones safe at home as opposed to this risky environment. One of the mothers had twins, and one died after childbirth. She could not attend the burial and has never been home since giving birth.
Additionally, the hospital keeps billing us close to 10,000 shillings every day for our continued stay. We are all jobless and unable to raise the amount. The hospital fees keep rising and we don’t know what to do. Please can you assist us get out of this place?
It’s true that Kenyans are hungry and extremely angry.
It’s true that Kenyans are disappointed by the slowness with which Kenya Kwanza administration is responding to their dire straits.
It’s true that Kenya Kwanza has failed to COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY on whatever programs and CONCRETE initiatives they have put in place to alleviate the biting HIGH COST of LIVING.
It’s also true that conman @RailaOdinga and his Kuzimia maniacs are taking advantage of the situation and causing havoc over PROBLEMS they CAUSED during the #HandShake abuse of power and plunder.
But fellow Kenyans, destroying the highways, roads and property you paid for with your TAXES and whose repair and reconstruction you will pay for isn’t the most PRODUCTIVE way to express your anger.
At the end of the day, conman @RailaOdinga will sleep soundly at his Karen, Kisumu, Opoda, Mombasa, Malindi, Johannesburg or Dubai mansions as you nurse your wounds, stay in jail or as your bereaved relatives bury you in shallow graves.
You have a right to PROTEST PEACEFULLY. Not to cause mayhem and havoc. Remember that tomorrow, it’s your taxes that will pay for what you have destroyed.
@USEmbassyKenya@USAmbKenya it is with great heart break and sorrow that i write this in the hopes i will be assisted to attend my beloved sisters funeral on the 14th of october 2022.
My sister died suddenly on the 3rd of september 2022, in her sleep leaving behind two children.
Today I'm sending all my support and best wishes to world marathon record holder, @EliudKipchoge as he prepares for the #INEOS159 challenge in Vienna, Austria.
We are proud of you and thank you for always soaring the Kenyan flag. 🇰🇪
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If you enter a situation holding the belief that YOU are the incredible opportunity, you will find it less challenging to notice when you aren’t being as appreciated as you deserve to be. This is how you take your power back without even trying.
You may be surrounded by opposition, surrounded by debt, surrounded by an addiction. But what you can’t see is the Most High God is surrounding what’s surrounding you.
We have a High Court Judgment that the next Cabinet must have at least a third of its members as Women. That means 7, at the very least. Will @UKenyatta respect the Courts and the Constitution!