Kenyan Women Detained In Hospitals
Aug 23, 2009 Infrastructure, Kenya Health, Patriotism, Social Issues, The Economic
Kenyan Women, whose only offense is guilty of being too poor to afford the fees charged for delivering children are still being unlawfully detained indefinitely at Kenya hospitals.
One of the Kenya’s largest referral maternity hospital Pumwani Maternity Hospital in Nairobi, is notorious for detaining women and keeping them in inhuman conditions. They suffer psychological torture as the hospital is not sensitive to the mothers who are grieving for losing a child and also the diet they are subjected to isn’t healthy for the lactating mothers.
In a recent visit members of the Kenya Network of Grassroots Organization found over 20 women illegally detained for lack of money – some had been there since June 2009.
1. What can we do to stop this repetitive torture to new mothers whose problem is being too poor to afford the maternity charges?
2. What can the Ministry of Health do to stop this torturous system of detaining poor Kenyans indefinitely in hospital for non-payment of exorbitant health care bills?
3. Is it not a high time that we started a health care in Kenya especially for the poor people in the community?
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Kenya Post Election Violence
Aug 8, 2009 Governance, Patriotism, Social Issues
The dispensation of justice in Kenya is a big, emotive and often times controversial issue. This issue has captured the public’s attention particularly with regards to the trial of people suspected to have masterminded the Kenya post election violence of late 2007 and early 2008 following the bungled presidential election of December 2007.
The trial of people suspected to have been behind the skirmishes that left a reported 1,300 people dead and over 350,000 displaced has dominated public debate, and opinion is divided over where they should be tried – the International Criminal Court at The Hague, or locally through a local tribunal, or a Kenya truth justice and reconciliation commission.
1. What is the best option for trying post election violence masterminds?
2. Would Kenyans get justice if the post election violence suspects were tried at The Hague?
3. What would be implications for the country if the suspects were tried at The Hague?
4. What are the best solutions for electoral violence, and other anomalies that seem to characterize Kenya’s politics, and political choices?
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