It’s criminal for hospitals to detain patients over unpaid medical bills
July 7, 2021 Written by FRED MUWEMA
A Covid-19 patient who needs to acquire hospital care in Uganda must now employ a triple strategy to survive.
The first is to fight the virulent virus in the body. The second involves fighting the high cost of treatment at the hospital. The third strategy is through prayer that the hospital bill does not kill you sooner.
Whether you survive or die from the virus, you may not survive the high cost of treatment, unless you are lucky to be admitted in a public hospital where you will be charged an average of Shs 1 million per day in the Intensive Care Unit. The only private hospital which keeps its char
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