Patient carried to bank

Nairobi - A Kenyan businessman was carried into a bank on a stretcher to withdraw cash after a hospital refused to treat him …

Nairobi - A Kenyan businessman was carried into a bank on a stretcher to withdraw cash after a hospital refused to treat him because he could not pay his bill, newspapers reported.

The East African Standard said Mr Wilson Owuor had been beaten by thugs and taken to a hospital, which refused to admit him because he carried no money.

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