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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, within the public sector, which this Motion targets, rates of mortuary fees range from Kshs200 per day in what is described as the general section while the private section attracts a flat rate of Kshs5,500 per week and a further charge of Kshs500 for every day the body remains uncollected. What I am trying to underline here is that the bodies do not remain uncollected in morgues because the families do not want to give their departed relatives a decent burial. People may think that the cost of mortuary services is a small fee. That is because a few well endowed Kenyans are able to afford that. But when you move to the countryside where the majority of our people live and where poverty levels are rather disproportionately high, that is when you come to realize that even those people who die do so because of lack of money to cater for them in a manner that may have prevented them from dying. Once they have died, telling their families to raise even what is referred to as a minimal fee becomes a huge challenge. If you think about treatment or embalming in the Government run morgues, the costs would reach a further Kshs2,500 per cadaver and other services. For instance, the services of post-mortem are not included."
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