The Naivasha sub County hospital is set to dispose ten unclaimed bodies of in a public cemetery in three weeks.
In a statement from the department of public health signed by Ezekiel Bowen said the bodies have been decomposing after lying unclaimed for several months.
In addition he said, most of them were collected by police from Naivasha, Kijabe and Lari mainly along the Nairobi-Nakuru highway.
In nearly all the incidents, Bowen said the victims were killed through strangling and the bodies did not have any identification documents.
He said the mortuary is overstretched because it has a capacity for only 14 bodies.
“The hospital hereby issues a twenty-one-day notice for the bodies to be claimed failure to which the bodies will be buried in a mass grave in Longonot,” reads the notice in part.
On average, two to three bodies are dumped in the area mainly those of young male.
The notice to dispose of the bodies in the public cemetery in Longonot comes barely a week after Naivasha residents cried foul over a failure by the county government to buy cemetery land.
According to the chairman, Naivasha Professional Association (NPA) Eskimos Kobia said the issue had been forgotten noting that tens of families were suffering.