Kenya: Explained: How Mortuaries Dispose of Unclaimed Bodies

When Kenyatta National Hospital’s (KNH) Farewell Home announced on March 24 that it would dispose of 480 unclaimed bodies within just 7 days, the news raised a lot of confusion amongst Kenyans.

What made it worse was that the majority of those 480 bodies were children, a detail that deepened the shock and sent a wave of grief, outrage, and urgent questions rippling across the country.

At the heart of all that uproar was one simple but important question: how exactly does the government…