{"id":65389,"date":"2024-01-22T19:19:20","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T19:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=65389"},"modified":"2024-01-22T16:30:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T16:30:45","slug":"ugandans-turn-to-kenyan-mortuaries-for-embalming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/ugandans-turn-to-kenyan-mortuaries-for-embalming","title":{"rendered":"Ugandans turn to Kenyan mortuaries for embalming"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Ugandan nationals are taking bodies of the dead to mortuaries in Kenya due to the lack of well-equipped facilities in Busia, Namayingo, Bugiri and Tororo districts.<\/b><\/p>\n

Mr Charles Itogot, a resident of Busuwu Village, Sikuda Sub-county, who recently lost a mother, said: \u201cThe mortuaries in Masafu Hospital and Busia Health Centre IV lacked space and preservatives. So we went to St Francis Funeral Home in neighbouring Kenya.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the culture of Kenyans of having to preserve their departed ones for a week or two before burying is partly why they have better facilities,\u201d he added last Friday.<\/p>\n

This, he said, is in sharp contrast with some communities in Uganda, where dead bodies are kept in houses, while meetings are convened to plan for where the deceased will be buried.<\/p>\n

Busia operates two mortuaries, including one at Masafu Hospital and Busia Health Centre IV, which both can accommodate 15 dead bodies at a go.<\/p>\n

Mr Phabiano Nyiringango, a trader in Busia Town, who recently lost a family member at Masafu Hospital, said: \u201cThe mortuary there is a small room where dead bodies are packed like firewood.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition, he said the mortuary lacks a cold room, with attendants routinely running out of formalin, a disinfectant and preservative in funeral homes and medical laboratories.<\/p>\n

Dr Matthias Wabwire Panyako, the Busia District health officer, said the Ministry of Health stipulates that each mortuary should have cold rooms, enough space and qualified staff.<\/p>\n

He, however, said both mortuaries in the district lack cold rooms and are housed in small, box-like facilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cDue to the lack of cold rooms, we only have an option of preserving bodies using formalin,\u201d Dr Wabwire said.<\/p>\n

But sources at Masafu Hospital and Busia Health Centre IV said the facilities currently lack formalin.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have no formalin in stock and have to tell relatives who bring their departed ones for preservation to pay Shs70,000 for procuring it from Kenya,\u201d sources said.<\/p>\n

At the Busia border, each day, bodies are either taken across Kenya through porous borders, or the main border, according to Mr Moses Ouma, a driver of an ambulance.<\/p>\n

\u201cEach week, I take more than four dead bodies to funeral homes in Kenya for preservation,\u201d he said, adding that the main destinations are St Francis Funeral Home-Tanaka and Alupe University mortuary.<\/p>\n

Mr Ouma said at Busia County Referral Hospital and Alupe University Hospital, Ugandans pay twice the amount Kenyans pay to preserve bodies (KShs4,000, about Shs96,000).<\/p>\n

Ms Roselyn Barasa, the director of the Funeral Home, said her facility, opened last year, was receiving \u201cnot less than 50 bodies from Uganda every month\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n

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