Former Nairobi Governor Mike Mbuvi Sonko was forced to rescue a girl who had been left stranded in a hospital in the city over a huge pending bill.
In a statement dated Thursday, December 6, the former lawmaker stated that the eight-year-old girl was transferred from Bondo, Siaya County to one of her relatives in the outskirts of Nairobi.
The relative who is her aunt admitted the girl to a local hospital where she was successfully treated and cleared to leave.
However, she was unable to leave the hospital due to a pending medical bill of Ksh146,000.
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The family members who brought the sickly girl to Nairobi allegedly returned to Bondo abandoning her at the hospital.
Her aunt who was financially constrained and orphaned decided to plead for financial help from well-wishers online who could not raise the required amount to discharge her nephew.
Following a series of pleas, she decided to reach out to Mike Sonko who immediately deployed his rescue team to the medical centre where they cleared all the pending bills.
Moreover, Sonko facilitated their bus fare back to their rural Bondo home.
"After a few weeks, the young girl was treated and discharged, but they were unable to release her due to a huge outstanding hospital bill of around Ksh146,000, which the two sisters couldn't afford to pay," Sonko wrote.
"Today, as Good deeds Ambassador, the Sonko Rescue team cleared all the outstanding hospital bills and also catered for the transport of the young girl to back their rural home," he added.
