The ongoing nurse’s strike has affected many people,families have lost their loved one due to lack of medical attention.
For most people being close to a dead person is a hard thing to ask of them, even if they were family, because there is a weight that comes with death that can not be explained.
However a woman was forced to carry the body of her baby for about 5km to a mortuary because officials at a city hospital where the boy died could not help transport it.
Immaculate Auma had to undergo the agonising journey from Mbagathi Hospital, where her six-month-old baby died , to a police post at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), where she was required to file a notification.
The grieving mother then, cradling the lifeless body, had to walk again to City Mortuary, where attendants kept her waiting for hours.
Auma and her mother Linet Atieno sat on the cold concrete bench at the mortuary for more than three hours, holding the corpse in turns, as they waited to be attended to.
They could not afford to take the body to a private mortuary.
“We came at around 10.30am and did not find anyone, so we sat on the bench,” said Atieno.