{"id":115934,"date":"2025-06-03T08:03:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T08:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/06\/03\/knh-issues-7-day-notice-to-claim-124-unclaimed-bodies\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T08:03:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T08:03:28","slug":"knh-issues-7-day-notice-to-claim-124-unclaimed-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/knh-issues-7-day-notice-to-claim-124-unclaimed-bodies\/","title":{"rendered":"KNH issues 7-day notice to claim 124 unclaimed bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya Jun 3 \u2013 Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) has issued a public notice calling on relatives and friends to claim 124 unclaimed bodies currently lying at its Farewell Home.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the hospital said the bodies must be identified and collected within seven days, in accordance with the Public Health Act Cap 242.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Act, if a body remains unclaimed, the hospital is required to seek authorization from the court to dispose of it. <\/p>\n<p>The law mandates public notification to allow relatives or interested parties an opportunity to come forward and claim the body. <\/p>\n<p>If no claim is made within the specified notice period, typically 7 to 10 days, the body may then be disposed of, usually through a pauper\u2019s burial organized by the government.<\/p>\n<p>Failure to do so will compel the hospital to seek court permission for their disposal.<\/p>\n<p>The full list of the unclaimed bodies is available for viewing at the KNH Farewell Home and online at <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/knh.or.ke\/index.php\/disposal-of-unclaimed-bodies\/\">www.knh.or.ke<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya Jun 3 \u2013 Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) has issued a public notice calling on relatives and friends to claim 124 unclaimed bodies currently lying at its Farewell Home. In a statement, the hospital said the bodies must be identified and collected within seven days, in accordance with the Public Health Act Cap 242. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}