Kitui Senator Enock Wambua on Sunday made an impromptu' visit at Kitui Level Five Hospital following complaints from the patients at the facility.
The complainants claimed they had been 'sleeping' with dead bodies in the wards after deaths of their bedmates.
One of the nurses in charge of Ward six at the facility admitted that the claims of delaying the bodies after death were true.
She said some of the mortuary attendants say they are busy whenever they were called to collect the bodies from the wards.
Wambua said it is a big shame for a referral hospital to be operating in such an unpleasant manner.
Some patients who had been referred to Kenyatta National Hospital a week ago were still helplessly waiting for the clearance from the wards.
Speaking to the Medical Superintendent J.N Muingai over phone, he said those were just small mistakes done which could destroy the good picture of the hospital.
Kitui residents were angered by the act and termed it as inhuman.
"Even if they are not satisfied with what they earn. They should not let patients sleep with dead bodies. It's inhuman and shameful," complained Mulwa, one of the residents.
Ambulances belonging to Machakos County Government were used to transfer the patients to KNH when the nurses downed their tools.
It has not been made clear why they are on strike but some say they need a better pay.
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