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The Machakos County Referral Hospital mortuary will not settle for our bodies from different counties, in keeping with the county’s Well being Govt Daniel Yumbya.
The mortuary serves elements of neighbouring Kajiado, Kiambu, Kitui and Makueni counties. Governor Wavinya Ndeti’s administration says the power is overwhelmed.
Dr Yumbya additionally introduced the lifting of a ban on the usage of the mortuary by cops to deposit our bodies collected from accident and crime scenes.
“The governor has now issued a directive. Beginning subsequent Friday, we are going to permit cops to deposit our bodies on the mortuary. Nonetheless, these ought to solely be our bodies collected in Machakos County. The mortuary will solely be opened for our bodies collected from Machakos County,” Dr Yumbya mentioned throughout a press briefing on the facility on Saturday.
The stench emanating from the mortuary has dominated the complaints the Stage 5 hospital has been battling with in latest months, with fixed requires Ms Ndeti to behave to treatment the scenario.
Though the mortuary has a capability of 24 our bodies, Dr Yumbya mentioned it at all times holds many occasions that quantity, a scenario he blamed on the police who use the power to protect our bodies collected from accident and crime scenes in Machakos and neighbouring counties.
The scenario worsens when our bodies stay unclaimed for a very long time, he mentioned. “In an effort to decongest the mortuary, we disposed of among the unclaimed our bodies within the mortuary in March and one other 31 unclaimed our bodies in September after acquiring courtroom orders.”
 Regardless of the interventions, the uproar over the state of the mortuary intensified final month when the state authorities regulated the usage of the mortuary to pave the way in which for its renovation. Social media was flooded with stories of residents being denied providers on the facility.
The outcry prompted Dr Yumbya to take members of the Machakos County Meeting’s well being committee on a tour of the power.
He denied claims that the mortuary had been closed as he listed quite a few measures the county authorities had put in place to revamp service supply on the hospital.
“We had solely banned the police from depositing our bodies from accident and crime scenes from different counties whereas we renovated the power,” he mentioned.
“We had instructed the police to take the our bodies elsewhere. The our bodies they gather in Sultan Hamud ought to be taken to Makueni. These they gather in Ngong ought to be taken to Nairobi. And people the police gather in Thika ought to be taken to Donyo Sabuk as an alternative of inflicting congestion at Machakos County Referral Hospital mortuary,” mentioned Dr Yumbya.
Machakos Meeting Well being Committee Chairman and Higher Kaewa MCA Vincent Mutie urged these complaining about service supply on the hospital and mortuary to air their grievances with out inflicting worry among the many individuals. “Let’s preserve politics out of our hospitals,” he mentioned.
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