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Outcry as Migori inmate with severe burns taken to hospital two months late

Migori County Referral Hospital's Casualty. [Anne Atieno, Standard]

A family in Migori County is now faulting Kendege Prison for keeping their kin without proper medication despite him having sustained severe burns after he allegedly fell in hot porridge.

The inmate who was serving a six-year jail sentence is said to have sustained porridge burns on November 29 and was only taken to Migori Referral Hospital on January 7.

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