40 mentally ill Kenyans excaped from hospital

Police said 40 mentally ill patients have escaped from the Mathari Mental Hospital in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, subduing guards.

Some of the patients are known to be violent, and hence a manhunt is underway, police says.

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.
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 BBC learned from a Senior Nairobi police officer ,Moses Ombati,  that 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. 

"We have all their particulars and including their pictures and that will make it easy for us to identify them," he said.



 Source:BBC News



Ps: The Patients are considered insane but they know the medicines they take are infective. They are supposed mentally ill but know how to  defeat guards and escape. These patients must be prisoners not mentally insane.