Activist Boniface Mwangi has explained the circumstances behind the viral video of him shouting at a City Hospital that has become a subject of discussion among Kenyans.
While explaining the video, Boniface Mwangi divulged that he was involved in a road accident on August 21, while in the company of her wife and friend.
He said they were passengers in the friends car and it happened after a speeding vehicle veered into their lane while speeding and hit their car.
"We landed up side down and the first people on the scene robbed us of our personal effects. Luckily, a good Samaritan couple, Eddu Rono and his wife, Koskey Yuniscah, came to our rescue and took us to a hospital," he said.
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He said the accident left his wife in pain, in a state of delirium, and was in and out of consciousness.
But on the arrival to the City hospital, he claims, the health facility was hesitant to treat them and demanded money first before rendering their services.
He explained that it is during that confusing moment that he got harangued and lost control.
"The hospital wanted me to pay in order for my wife to get treatment but I had neither the money, nor my wallet. Emergency health care is a right in the Constitution (Article 43(2)) and in my desperation to get the hospital management to attend to my wife beyond taking her vitals and giving her painkillers, I ended up raising my voice, breaking some things, and causing a scene," he said.
"My wife only got the medical attention she needed when my friend came to the hospital and paid the bill."
However, the activist has revealed that he apologized for his action saying what he did to have his wife attended to was wrong.
"The actions that I took to get my wife medical attention were wrong and I apologized. I paid for all the damages that I had caused. The hospital costed the damaged items at KES 106,000.00, which l paid," he said.
"I reached out to the people who were working at the reception at the time of the incident and apologized to them."
He says his wife has fully recovered.
