A two-month-old baby has been detained at Komarock Modern Hospital, Utawala branch, Mavoko,over a Sh400,000 unpaid bill.
Jensen Okwaro and his mother Jacqueline Awuor, 32, were admitted on July 19.
He was in a coma and his mother was very ill as she had undergone a C-section.
Okwaro was only three weeks old. He was put in an incubator.
“It was not my choice to seek treatment at the private hospital. I had no alternative since nurses in public hospitals were on strike,” Awuor told the Star at the hospital on Monday.
She was released a few weeks ago to raise funds and walked 15km to Doors of Hope NGO in Athi River to seek assistance.
Programmes manager Jacqueline Shibalira said the NHIF won’t intervene because she defaulted on payments 16 months ago when the organisation she worked for went under.
To assist her donations can be sent to M-Pesa till number 680426, account Doors of Hope Baby Jensen.