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Hospitals detain mothers over bills during Covid-19 lockdown
Saturday June 12 2021
Mothers are taken through postnatal counselling at Kisenyi Health Centre IV in Kampala in April. Unlike public health facilities such as this one, many private health facilities are fond of detaining patients after failing to clear their medical bills. PHOTO/RACHEL MABALA
Summary
Although the hospitals deny detaining the mothers after they have failed to clear the bills, the victims say the facilities not only detain them but also confiscate their personal documents and deny them access to basics such as proper meals,
Jessica Sabano writes.
The impact of the lockdown imposed by government to stop the spread of Covid-19 has hit hard expectant mothers across the country.
Although the hospitals deny detaining the mothers after they have failed to clear the bills, the victims say the facilities not only detain them but also confiscate their personal documents and.
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The Chipata High Court in Zambia has sentenced a 30-year-old man of Sinda district to death for murdering his two-year-old step daughter.
Lusaka judge Kazimbe Chenda, who was sitting in Chipata, jailed Aliyele Phiri of Kachamba village for murdering Sarafina Phiri on December 15, 2019.
The prosecution called five witnesses to prove its case but Phiri did not call any witness in his defence.
The deceasedâs mother Melesiya Mvula who was the first prosecution witness told the court that on the material date, she left home for Mtandaza area and that the deceased who was 2 years 11 months old and her other ten-year-old daughter were left under the care of the convict.