KENYA US$320K MORTUARY CONSTRUCTION AT 90% COMPLETED

The construction of Nakuru County biggest mortuary in Naivasha, Kenya is now 90% completed.

So far, the current Naivasha’s facility has a capacity for 35 bodies yet the sub-county is the most densely populated of Nakuru’s 11 sub-counties.

This is quite small bearing in mind that Naivasha is positioning itself as the county’s next industrial hub following the opening of the Inland Container Depot at Maai Mahiu Industrial Park.

Speaking to the media, County Health Chief Officer Samuel King’ori said “It will be the biggest in Nakuru and will have a capacity of about 118. The construction is almost complete and the county is awaiting shipment of equipment from abroad.”

He noted that “If the equipment arrives today, it won’t take more than a week to hand over the facility to the management of the hospital.”

The importance of the facility is of necessity as Nakuru has many private mortuaries but there are no private mortuaries in Naivasha and Gilgil sub-counties and this has put pressure on public morgues in the two areas.

Meanwhile, the facility is one of the four projects proposed in the critical health sector, which entail construction of facilities and the refurbishment of existing ones.

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