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One of Kenya’s wealthiest and most controversial white families Thursday moved to court to compel a private hospital in which their only heir died while receiving treatment, to furnish them with medical records of the deceased.
Hugh George Cholmondeley, the 5th Lord Delamere, sued MP Shah Hospital and its Social Service league for refusing to provide the family with hospital records of Thomas Patrick Gilbert Cholmondeley.
However, nearly a year after, the family has been unable to obtain his death certificate, a factor which is putting the expansive Delamere beef and dairy farms in which he was a finance director at risk of intermeddling on matters administration.
Tom’s medical records have never been released and postmortem report was inconclusive and this has made it impossible for his family to get a death certificate.
According to Tom’s father, the inability to get a death certificate continues to cause the family psychological torture.
“The direct consequence of the hospital’s unlawful action is that no letters of administration can be taken out in respect of the deceased for purposes of administering the said estate in accordance with the law and the wishes of my son,” he said.