Family demands body of a loved one after hospital mistakenly releases it

Jeremiah Nyaega (right) flanked by his friend Thomas Momanyi makes a call at Mama Lucy Hospital, Nairobi. Jeremiah found the body of his wife, Pauline Sandia missing when he went to collect it for burial. October 21st,2020. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

A family in Nairobi is demanding the body of their kin said to have been mistakenly released from Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital to a wrong family.

The family of the late Pauline Wandia, 47, had made funeral preparations and were ready to collect her body for burial in Nyamira County, only to be told, "it is not there".