The Kenyatta University Teaching and Referral and Research Hospital (KUTRRH) is holding the body of a loved one from Embu County, and the family is worried.
The family claims that their relative’s body was admitted to KUTRRH, but that the hospital and mortuary have been holding it indefinitely since they have not been paid KSh 2.2 million.
Kenya News Agency said they want to ask the public for donations to help cover the costs of the funeral so that they can properly bury their loved one.
A supporter named Caroline Muthoni spoke about the family’s emotional anguish at a recent fundraiser. She also pleaded with Kenyans of goodwill, including President Dr. William Ruto and Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, to help. Muthoni also revealed that Purity Murugi and Doris Mumbi, both orphans, were brothers to the late Eric Mutugi. After being taken to Kenyatta hospital on December 27th, Mutugi died on January 15th in the intensive care unit.
In search of financial support Doris Mumbi stated that Sh.225,000 had been obtained through harambee and friends and had been paid to the morgue, but the body had still not been released for burial.
Concerned that the cost of burying her first-born brother may skyrocket while his body is at the KUTRRH morgue, she has made an appeal to Kenyans of good will for financial assistance.
So they’re organizing a 25-kilometer run to collect donations. Loss of life in conjoined twins Milpha Kemwama Magati and Nipha Nyang’ate Magati, conjoined twins, were also the subjects of a similar narrative in which their family begged for donations to cover their medical expenses. After more than a year at KNH, the duo racked up a bill of KSh 3.1 million, an amount their parents could not possibly pay. The parents are grieving the loss of their twins, but they also have to deal with the fact that the hospital has not yet released the remains because of the outstanding debt.
