Patients too poor to settle medical debts are chained to drain pipes, starved and abused in health centres across parts Africa.
Hospitals are detaining hundreds of thousands of people against their will every year - many of them mothers and their newborn babies - simply because they are too poor to pay their medical bills, a study has found.
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