Mombasa governor Hassan Joho.[Photo/Standardmedia.co.ke]
Fifty patients who were being detained at the Coast General Hospital for failing to pay bills amounting to Sh2.1 million have been released by Mombasa Governor Hassan Ali Joho.
The patients released included eight mothers of newly born babies who were detained because they had no identity cards to enable enjoy National Hospital Insurance (NHIF) used in paying maternity bills.
“I have ordered the release of 50 patients after being alerted by the hospital authorities that they are unable to pay their hospital bills,” said Joho. Joho who toured the hospital said his County Government regretted that some of the patients in the Maternity wing had no identity cards used in securing their release to enable the hospital claim the money from NHIF.