Homa Bay County Teaching and Referral Hospital has issued a seven-day notice to the public to come and identify bodies in its morgue, after which it will dispose 14 unclaimed bodies currently lying in the facility.
The hospital's chief executive officer, Dr.
Vincent Oduor, said that the bodies had overstayed in the morgue and were causing a lot of inconveniences, specifically overstretching hospital resources.
He noted that the cost of preserving the bodies was running high, while at times they caused congestion and unhygienic conditions at the facility. Oduor said the facility had received the bodies from police officers, having been collected from various sub counties. "Seven were collected from Mbita, six from Ndhiwa, and one from Suba South," he said, noting that some of the bodies were victims of road accidents, while others were retrieved from Lake Victoria.
