News Reports Examine Patients Unable To Pay Health Bills In Kenya’s “Cash Starved” Hospitals; “Bad Shape” Of Uganda’s Facilities

The Los Angeles Times examines several stories of patients too poor to pay their hospital bills in Kenya that were held in a “makeshift patients’ prison,” until they escape or settle their debt. “Tragically, healthcare horror stories are common in Africa, where developing countries rarely have medical safety nets for the poor.

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Filed under: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance on June 30th, 2009