Samuel Koigi on Tuesday, September 1 spoke out after reports were widely spread that he had passed on while pleading for help at Murang'a Level Five Hospital.
A video of him gasping for air at the waiting bay after suffering a boda boda accident surfaced on social media on Monday, August 31 sparking public outrage.
"I would like to thank those who made phone calls, they really helped me out. I would like to urge all doctors to help those in need in hospitals.
"It is God who helped me, you saw that the doctors neglected me but God helped me. I had carried someone but on my way back I met some drunkard and as we were trying to avoid him we fell and I hit my head on the tarmac," he explained.
Kiogi claimed that he remembers being placed on a drip in the hospital and being given some medication but was not offered any help when he was discharged.
He added that despite the little assistance he was charged Ksh. 4,400 and recalls other patients urging doctors to help him out in the hospital.
The man suspects that the hospital profiled him as a poor man and resorted to not attending to him at first when he sought help at the hospital.
Koigi is still suffering from effects of the crash as he is nursing a severe headache from the head injuries he sustained.
According to reports, the hospital at first denied Koigi visiting the hospital, with witnesses revealing that he was in bad shape.
A number of sources reported that Koigi died waiting for help in the waiting bay of the hospital as the video showed him in severe pain.
Witnesses in the hospital were scared to offer assistance to the man as they feared Koigi may have been suffering from Covid-19.
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