Kenya: Senior Medical Officer Disowns Late Wife, Declines to Bury Her Body

A family in Bungoma County is living in agony after a senior medical officer disowned his late wife who died of a long term illness.

The family has been incurring heavy mortuary bills after the Webuye Sub-County Hospital Superintendent Dr Patrick Mutoro Wambisi declined to collect the body of Florence Nasimiyu Chai, three weeks after she died at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret while undergoing treatment.

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