The Nairobi Women's' Hospital. [Photo/the-star.co.ke]Many women are languishing in detention in hospitals over their inability to pay their medical bills, it can be revealed.A UK-based firm, Chatham House, has cited Kenya as one of the countries where detentions over unpaid bills are widespread.Mostly, the women developed complications after being taken in, leading to the increase of their medical bills.Scores of women spoke to the Sunday Nation with tears in their eyes, narrating the psychological distress of being detained and being separated from their families.The cases of illegal detentions are not new to Kenya as such cases have been widely reported before in the mainstream media.

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