Homabay Law Court has issued an order allowing the County Teaching and Referral Hospital to dispose of 12 unclaimed bodies from its facility’s mortuary.
The order was issued through the Public Health Officer-In-Charge of sanitation, Nancy Ooko, giving a 14 days’ notice to the public to enable them to collect their kins’ bodies within the time frame and upon the expiry, the bodies be disposed of in conformity with the laid regulations.
This comes after the hospital submitted an application on January 1, this year, asking the court to permit them to dispose of the bodies as stipulated by the law.
Additionally, it issued the court with a supporting affidavit sworn by the hospital’s Public Health Officer.
According to Ooko, the bodies above from Rangwe, Kendu Bay, Mbita and Homa Bay Police Stations have overstayed at the hospital mortuary for more than the stipulated 21 days, hence overstretching the facility which has a capacity to hold up to 22 bodies.
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