Patients too destitute to settle medical debts are chained to drainpipes,starved and abused in health centres across parts of Africa and Asia, report revealsHospitals are detaining hundreds of thousands of people against their will every year – many of them mothers and their newborn babies – simply because they are too destitute to pay their medical bills, and a study has found.The practice,which is widespread across parts of sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, sees patients chained to drainpipes, and starved and abused,and forced to perform sexual acts in exchange for cash to pay off their bills, according to the paper published by Chatham House this week.[br]Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk