Double loss for families as bodies of kin held over bills

Grace Wamuyu, a granddaughter of Grace Wamuyu Muriithi whose body is detained at Karatina Level 4 Hospital's morgue, peruse unpaid medical bill. [Kibata Kihu, Standard]

Grace Wamuyu has faced double heartbreak since her grandmother died two months ago. She has been grieving for weeks and, at the same time, is restless since the body is being detained over unpaid hospital bill.

Seated outside her grandmother’s wooden house at Ihwagi village in Mathira, Nyeri County, she recalls in grief the good companionship she had with her late grandmother Grace Wamuyu Muriithi.