Description
The petition challenges the forceful detention of patients for failure to pay for costs of testing and medical treatment of COVID 19 while in isolation in Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral and Research Hospital (KUTRRH) and the failure of the state to cater for costs for testing and medical treatment of COVID 19 patients in public health facilities. It also challenges the State’s attempt to compel people admitted to public health facilities for COVID-19 to pay the costs of their isolation and treatment and eventually unlawfully detained two patients who were unable to pay these costs.
Current Status
Updated December 03, 2022
On 17th December 2020, the Court dismissed the application by the 1st and 2nd petitioners, which had asked the court to safeguard the privacy and confidentiality of their health information and allow them to take forward Petition E295 of 2020 using their initials. We have since filed an appeal from the ruling as shown below. The Court has stayed proceedings in this petition and directed that the appeal first be determined.
Previous Updates
On 17th December 2020, the Court dismissed the application by the 1st and 2nd petitioners, which had asked the court to safeguard the privacy and confidentiality of their health information and allow them to take forward Petition E295 of 2020 using their initials. We have since filed an appeal from the ruling as shown below. The Court has stayed proceedings in this petition and directed that the appeal first be determined.
