According to the superintendent in charge of Naivasha County Referral Hospital, Dr Angeline Ithondeka, services at the hospital’s mortuary were overstretched due to the rising cases of bodies.
She noted that it was becoming expensive every year to dispose of the bodies, adding that they had followed all the legal processes before the exercise was carried out.
“We have disposed of twenty bodies at the public cemetery in Longonot and we are concerned by the high number of bodies collected by police and left unclaimed in our mortuary,” she said.
She noted that this was straining their budget and services as the current mortuary had a capacity of 25 bodies and served nearby counties of Nyandarua, Narok and even parts of Kiambu.
“This mortuary serves parts of the Nairobi-Nakuru highway but we are glad that the county government is building a bigger one within the hospital,” she said on Monday.
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