The High Court has declared the practice of detaining bodies over unpaid hospital bills illegal, unconstitutional, oppressive, and a violation of the dignity of the dead and their families.
Justice Nixon Sifuna, while delivering the ruling in a case involving Mater Misericordiae Hospital, ordered the immediate release of the body of the late Caroline Nthangu Tito, who died at the facility on August 2 this year.
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