Police in Moroto District have arrested eight staff members of Moroto municipal council for failing to collect unclaimed dead bodies that made patients desert the Moroto Regional Referral Hospital.
The arrest came after patients protested against the failure by the hospital management to collect dead bodies that had remained in the hospital wards for days.
Most of the patients had sought shelter under trees in the hospital compound complaining of foul smell in the hospital wards.
Some of the patients who had discharged themselves and those who preferred sleeping in the cold dark nights outside the hospital building said they couldn’t endure the smell of the dead.
Mr. Filbert Nyeko the hospital director said they have no space to put the dead bodies adding that the hospital mortuary was full of unclaimed dead bodies.
“We don’t have a place to keep the dead bodies because the hospital mortuary is full of unclaimed dead bodies,” he said.
Mr. George Obia the district police commander confirmed the arrest of staff in the Moroto Municipal Council health department but said they were released on police bond after recording statements which will be used in court over charges of negligence.
“We arrested eight. We also wanted to arrest the town clerk but he was not around. We released the suspects on police bond but they will appear before court over negligence,” he said.
Meanwhile police with the support from the mayor Mr. Noah Ewaru collected the dead bodies from the hospital wards and took them to their respective villages for burial.
However, the hospital is still faced with the challenge of inadequate space in the mortuary which is full of unclaimed dead bodies.
Last week, the hospital announced that it had stopped carrying out postmortem on accident victims on grounds that there was not enough space in the hospital mortuary where a doctor would stand and perform the exercise on dead bodies.
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