WALKING DEAD, THE 5KM TORMENTING WALK TO CITY MORGUE

A Nairobi woman walked for 5km to a morgue on Wednesday, 13th February carrying son’s body after he died at a city hospital.

Immaculate Auma had taken her six months son who had developed fever at Mbagathi Hospital for treatment.

The infant died as medics attended to him. The mourning mother was instructed to head to Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) where she could notify the facility’s police of the death before being given clearance to proceed to a morgue. Both Mbagathi Hospital and police at KNH had no means to help Auma transport her dead son to City Mortuary.

The woman had spent the only KSh 200 she had to rush the young one at Mbagathi Hospital  a board a bodaboda.

She covered her son with a shawl and braved her way to the morgue.

At the morgue, there was total lethargy owing to ongoing Nairobi County worker’s strike. She sat on a cold concrete bench at the mortuary for at least three hours, holding the body on her lap, waiting for her son to be booked in.

It took the intervention of human rights activists who were picketing at the morgue for the process to be expedited.

“They took my child, but they did not put him in a fridge yet. I just hope that the body will be well preserved.” She explains amid sobs

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