Escapee Patients From Kenya Mental Hospital Voluntarily Return

{{Reports from Kenya indicate that six of the 40 mental patients who escaped from the Mathari Mental Hospital in Nairobi are still at large. others have voluntarily returned to the facility.}}

Police and the hospital officials said on Wednesday most of the patients had voluntarily returned while others were being brought back by their parents and members of the public.

The hospital’s medical superintendent Dr Kisivuli Atzenga confirmed the return of the male patients.

“They were brought back but some are yet to come and we appeal to the parents of those still out there to bring them back,” said Atzenga.

Atzenga said none of those who escaped was a criminal or under police care. He said the wards that accommodate police and prisons cases are isolated.

He said they informed police as a procedure and because they have the network of tracing the missing patients.

The patients are among 40 who escaped from the facility on May 12 after a confrontation with cleaners and security.

Officials said the patients were among 75 who were locked in ward nine at the facility when they ganged up and bolted out.

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