Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) has issued a notice to members of the public to identify and collect 233 unclaimed bodies that have been lying at its funeral home for four months.
The country’s largest referral hospital said it will seek authority to dispose of the 233 bodies comprising 217 children and 16 adults in a mass grave if they are not collected within seven days.
KNH CEO Evanson Kamuri said the facility is seeking to create more space at its crowded morgue.
The hospital released a list of the bodies’ names which is available at the KNH Farewell Home and can also be accessed through the institution’s website.
The KNH’s notice comes barely a month after the Nairobi County Government disposed of 236 unclaimed dead bodies lying in morgues within the city. The county said 218 of the unclaimed bodies were at the Nairobi City Mortuary and 18 at Mama Lucy Hospital Mortuary.
The causes of death ranged from road accidents, murder, drowning, shooting, natural death, sudden death, mob injustice among others.
The bodies were received in the morgues in the period between March 2021 and March 2022, having been registered in various police stations.
The Public Health Act requires an unclaimed body to be removed from a mortuary within two weeks, failure to which it should be buried in a mass grave after public officers obtain permission from a court.
They are dead ? just get a…
They are dead ? just get a humongous furnace and roast the dead ?! Stop wasting land which is shrinking by the second!
Unclaimed and disposed of,…
Unclaimed and disposed of, that’s the final insult to a person who’s lived a life of poverty and deprivation. Hopefully God has a better place for him or her.