The bodies have been in the morgue for more than six months. [Photo: Gavel_galleryhip.com]
A Naivasha court has issued an order for the disposal of seventeen badly decomposing bodies that have been lying at the Naivasha sub-county hospital for the last six months.
The department that is mandated to dispose of the bodies is reportedly cash-strapped amid reports that the county government of Nakuru had not dispatched funds for the exercise.
According to a senior public health official who did not wish to be named, there were no funds to transport the bodies to the nearest cemeteries.
“We have received an order to bury the bodies in a mass grave, a process that is expensive and we do not have the funds to carry out the exercise,” said the officer.
“The mortuary has a capacity of preserving twelve bodies only but it has over thirty bodies with some decomposing badly,” said the officer.
The officer at the same time said the local mortuary was filled up saying the bodies once buried will help relieve the pressure in the small facility.