Death is one of the most traumatising thing to deal with, whether one has lost a close friend or a relative,there is a weight that comes with death that can not be explained.
One Immaculate Ouma, had to do what most people would really struggle with having lost a loved one.
Upon the death of her son, at Mbagathi Hospital, she was forced to carry the body of her child for about 5 kilometers to the City Mortuary as the facility officials claimed they could not help transport it.
Auma explained that after the son died while being attended to at Mbagathi Hospital, where he was being treated of pneumonia, the doctor instructed her to take her child to the mortuary.
The doctor then instructed her to go to the police post at KNH to get a clearance letter to take the baby to any mortuary.
Finding her way to at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) police post, Auma had to walk the ‘longest’ journey with the weight of her dead six-month-old boy in her arms, on Wednesday, in order to file a notification.
If that was not so much for a grieving mother, she had to still walk with the lifeless body of her –once- active son to City Mortuary where the attendants kept her waiting for hours.
Accompanied by her mother, Linet Atieno, they sat on the bench at the mortuary for at least three hours, all the while holding on to the corpse, as they waited to be attended to.
“We came at around 10:30am and did not find anyone, so we sat on the bench,” Ms Atieno mentioned.
In her rescue, Immaculate got help after intervention of human rights activists who were at the mortuary waiting for a postmortem to be carried out on the body of the late Caroline Mwatha whose body was found at the morgue.
“What if she was traumatized and got knocked by a vehicle while walking to this place?” posed one activist.
It was after the intervention that an attendant offered her help and took the body of her son.