{"id":3156,"date":"2019-02-28T00:30:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T00:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/?p=3156"},"modified":"2019-02-28T00:30:41","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T00:30:41","slug":"kenyan-father-tried-to-smuggle-baby-from-hospital-due-to-unpaid-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2019\/02\/28\/kenyan-father-tried-to-smuggle-baby-from-hospital-due-to-unpaid-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan father tried to smuggle baby from hospital due to unpaid bills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A man who was arrested for attempting to smuggle his baby out of a hospital in the Kenyan capital Nairobi has been given a suspended sentence.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Boniface Murage said he tried to carry his daughter out of Kenyatta National Hospital hidden in a paper bag as he could not afford to pay her medical bills.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Some Kenyans sympathised with the father, whose daughter had been in hospital for three weeks.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The 22-year-old was given a three-month suspended sentence following a court case.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Globally, hundreds of thousands of patients every year are thought to be detained over unpaid medical bills, with parts of sub-Saharan Africa and Asia especially affected.<\/strong><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man who was arrested for attempting to smuggle his baby out of a hospital in the Kenyan capital Nairobi has been given a suspended sentence. Boniface Murage said he tried to carry his daughter out of Kenyatta National Hospital hidden in a paper bag as he could not afford to pay her medical bills. Some Kenyans sympathised with the&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2019\/02\/28\/kenyan-father-tried-to-smuggle-baby-from-hospital-due-to-unpaid-bills\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3157,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156\/revisions\/3157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}