Mother of a suffering girl pleads with Duale over hospital bill

Ayan Gedi, 16, is a needy girl with a life-threatening kidney disease, and she’s been detained at Nairobi East Hospital in Eastleigh with a bill of more than Sh879, 000.

Mama Abdia Banina with her daughter Ayan Gedi,16, at Nairobi East Hospital.

She is suffering from an acute bilateral kidney (both kidneys) failure. The hospital bill increases by more than Sh50, 000 a week as she undergoes dialysis twice a week.
Ayan Gedi, who is a Form Two student at Yathrib Secondary School in Garissa, needs an urgent kidney transplant.
Her mother, Abdia Banin, who lost her eldest son mid last year, has appealed to well-wishers for help.
“We have been stuck here for months. The hospital management keeps on telling us that we must pay up, otherwise they will stop attending to my daughter,” she told the Star newspaper.
The hospital administrator Ashihundu Khayumbi said the bill must be paid, but the girl’s father died in 2011 and her mother cannot afford the hospital bill.
She urged Garissa Town MP Aden Duale and Senator Yussuf Haji to help her..
Mama Abdia Banin can be contacted on 0721115888.