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| Kenyan patients escape from Nairobi's Mathari hospital | Kenyan patients escape from Nairobi's Mathari hospital |
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| Forty mentally ill patients have escaped from the Mathari Mental Hospital in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, after overpowering guards, police say. | Forty mentally ill patients have escaped from the Mathari Mental Hospital in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, after overpowering guards, police say. |
| A search has been launched for the patients, some of whom are known to be violent, police told the BBC. | A search has been launched for the patients, some of whom are known to be violent, police told the BBC. |
| Kenya's Standard newspaper reports that the group escaped from the state hospital after complaining that the medicine given to them was ineffective. | Kenya's Standard newspaper reports that the group escaped from the state hospital after complaining that the medicine given to them was ineffective. |
| Mathari is the biggest psychiatric hospital in Kenya. | Mathari is the biggest psychiatric hospital in Kenya. |
| In 2011, rights groups called for an investigation into alleged human rights abuses at the hospital following a CNN documentary "Locked up and Forgotten". | |
| The CNN crew reported that during a visit to the hospital, they found a dead body locked up in a seclusion cell with a patient. | |
| Senior Nairobi police officer Moses Ombati told the BBC the patients had staged a protest, before overpowering guards and escaping. | Senior Nairobi police officer Moses Ombati told the BBC the patients had staged a protest, before overpowering guards and escaping. |
| The hospital reported the escape to police on Sunday, divisional police chief Samuel Anampiu is quoted by the Standard as saying. | The hospital reported the escape to police on Sunday, divisional police chief Samuel Anampiu is quoted by the Standard as saying. |
| "We have all their particulars and including their pictures and that will make it easy for us to identify them," he said. | "We have all their particulars and including their pictures and that will make it easy for us to identify them," he said. |