We’ve spent every coin we had in India and now can’t return home

Wallace Kimani with his wife Cecilia Muthoni at the Artemis Hospital in India, where he has been undergoing Esophageal Cancer treatment. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

Like a predatory spider that has span its intricate web around the globe, ensnaring billions, the coronavirus pandemic has literally brought the world to a standstill after causing the closures of national borders and airspace.

And now, like flies caught in this complex web, millions of people, among them Kenyans, have been rendered strangers in foreign lands. Among those who have fallen unwitting victims are patients who had flown thousands of miles to India in search of medical attention.