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Nakuru County has issued a 21 day-notice public notice regarding the impending disposal of over 80 bodies that remain unclaimed in its morgues since June 2023.

 Nakuru County Director for Public Health Elizabeth Kiptoo said that the bodies have remained at the two main mortuaries for nearly a year without any next of kin showing up.

“We have issued a public notice and through the local administration that we intend to dispose of 84 unclaimed bodies in two of our mortuaries,” said Kiptoo.

Serves several counties

 The bodies are preserved at the Nakuru Level Five Hospital morgue and the PGH Annex mortuary, formerly Kwa Jack morgue, both of which serve several counties in the region.

 According to the notice, 34 of the bodies are at the Nakuru Level Five Hospital Morgue while 50 of them are at the PGH Annex morgue.

Kiptoo explained that among the 50 bodies at PGH Annex mortuary, 37 bodies are those of infants whose identity remains unknown with others brought in as stillbirths.

 “We have done our best to reach out to the people we believed to be their next of kin but have not succeeded. Some are just good samaritans who have no further information,” said Kiptoo.

 According to the records, most of the bodies were brought in in police vehicles from scenes of accidents with very few details making it hard for their identification.