Confusion at Kiambu mortuary over body mix-up
Confusions marked operations at Kiambu Level Five Hospital mortuary on Tuesday over body mix-up.
The mortuary ordered all male bodies released on Tuesday morning returned for identification.
The order was issued after a family failed to find the body of a kin at the mortuary, raising fears the attendants had mistakenly released it to another family.
Relatives who went to pick the body of Stephen Mburu for burial found it had been released.
The body of the elderly man had been preserved at the mortuary for six days and was scheduled to be buried at Karia village in Githunguri where mourners had already gathered for the ceremony.
“When we arrived at the mortuary this morning, we were given a body belonging to someone else and we rejected it. We demanded we be given Mburu's body but it seemed that it had already been released to another family. We checked all the bodies which were at the facility at the time, but none of them belonged to my late husband,” said Mburu's wife, Ms Njeri.
After a scuffle with the facility's attendants, the management of the hospital ordered six male bodies that had been released since morning returned.
By 2pm, three bodies, one which was being buried in Kwa-Maiko in Githunguri about 16 kilometers from the facility and another one transported to Kanunga, about five kilometers away had been brought back.
A third body that was to be buried on the outskirts of Kiambu town was also returned.
But the three bodies were released to the families because none turned out to be that of Mburu.
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