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Kenya hospital imprisons new mothers with no money
myfoxorlando ^ | 12/28/2012 | By Associated Press

Posted on 12/28/2012 10:36:02 AM PST by redreno

NAIROBI, Kenya - The director of the Pumwani Maternity Hospital, located in a hardscrabble neighborhood of downtown Nairobi, freely acknowledges that he detains mothers who can't pay their bills.


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: healthcare; kenya

1 posted on 12/28/2012 10:36:07 AM PST by redreno
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To: redreno

I guess Obamao has some thinking to do, don’t he.


2 posted on 12/28/2012 10:42:33 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: redreno

Too bad this wasn’t in place when Obama was born...


3 posted on 12/28/2012 10:44:27 AM PST by Wisconsinlady (The only thing to stop a bad person with a gun, is a good person with a gun.)
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To: Wisconsinlady

Maybe the son can do the time now anyway.


4 posted on 12/28/2012 10:56:47 AM PST by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: redreno

This is the kind of healthcare/welfare reform I could support.


5 posted on 12/28/2012 11:01:12 AM PST by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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To: redreno

I once spent a night sitting with a friend who was hospitalized in Kenya due to a road accident. 41 patients on that ward.

10 (including my friend) were one person to a bed.
17 were two to a bed.
The rest were three to a bed,counting those sleeping under the bed. These were probably family members there to help the patient.

Sometime in the wee hours of the night I realized that of the 10 who were one to a bed, two of those were dead. When I mentioned it the next morning, I was told that the doctor would not sign the death certificate & release the body until the bill had been paid.

It gave a whole new appreciation for the expression “dead beat debtor”


6 posted on 12/28/2012 11:37:47 AM PST by BwanaNdege ("To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"- Voltaire)
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To: redreno

All cultures are equal, right? /s


7 posted on 12/28/2012 11:40:19 AM PST by GOPJ (It's not possible to be a Progressive and not be a hypocrite. Freeper TigersEye.)
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To: redreno

They should do this in the US, even going so far as forcing the mothers to work in the fields until the bill is paid. I would have no objection; some of these “mothers” haven’t had a W-2 issued in their “families” in several generations...


8 posted on 12/28/2012 12:41:24 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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