The Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) management in Eldoret town has raised an alarm over the increased number of unclaimed bodies at its funeral home.
Hospital's Chief Executive Officer Dr Wilson Aruasa on Saturday while speaking during an interview with Citizen TV said that currently there are 200 bodies lying at the mortuary.
The facility has the capacity of holding only 130 bodies.
"We are calling on family members whose loved ones are at the mortuary to pick the bodies within the next one week,” said Dr Aruasa.
He noted that if the bodies will not have been collected in 14 days, they will be disposed at a public cemetery in Eldoret as by the law.
“We can’t continue preserving the bodies at the facility. Family members who don’t collect the bodies within 14 days will not find them since we will bury the bodies at a public cemetery in Eldoret to ease congestion,” said the MTRH boss.
Dr Aruasa noted that the congestion at the hospitals' funeral home is as a result of locals in Western Kenya also taking bodies of their loved ones to the facility for preservation.
He also pointed out that some of the unclaimed bodies are the ones picked by the police from the crime scenes while others are those of families still battling court cases related to property inheritance and burial sites.