Looking into the human rights campaigns about this from Chatham House we have "• In some parts of the world it is common practice for patients to be detained i

Looking into the human rights campaigns about this from Chatham House we have "• In some parts of the world it is common practice for patients to be detained in hospital for non-payment of healthcare bills. • Such detentions occur in public as well as private medical facilities, and there appears to be wide societal acceptance in certain countries of the assumed right of health providers to imprison vulnerable people in this way. • The true scale of these hospital detention practices, or ‘medical detentions’, is unknown, but the limited academic research to date suggests that hundreds of thousands of people are likely to be affected every year.... Women requiring life-saving emergency caesarean sections, and their babies, are particularly vulnerable to detention in medical facilities."