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    "id": 51601,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Shakeel",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 140,
        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, to ask for a decent place of burial is a constitutional right. However, in this country, be it in Nairobi, Mombasa or anywhere else, there are no cemeteries. As you know, we had a cemetery situation which caused us a problem. The cemetery in Nairobi is over-populated. People are burying bodies on top of others. As my friend, hon. Affey said, the Muslims have a way of burying very fast. But that, in itself, has a problem. It is known that people in un-populated areas like North Eastern Province find themselves in graves before they are really dead. That is when they fall into a coma. However, coming back to the issue of bodies, most of the dead bodies in hospitals are of patients who were actually admitted there. So, there is no need for a post-mortem. As such, those bodies can be disposed of, if need be, within seven days. There are other bodies that are picked up and brought by the police, and for which post-mortems are necessary. Those can take up to six months. Those are the major problems that we have. The city authorities are the ones who are mandated to dispose of bodies. But I can tell you from personal experience--- I have been a Mayor and also a Chairman of a hospital at the same time. It is impossible for the city authorities to pick up those bodies. They do not have the funds nor do they have service capability. However, likewise, the hospitals have a major problem. They are there to look after the living and not the dead. The dead are meant to be disposed of quickly and buried. But, unfortunately as I said, post- mortems are causing a major problem. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in public hospitals, all bodies are embalmed. That is because of lack of cold storage. Those are especially the ones which no post- mortem is required. Those embalmment costs help to keep the body out of cold storage and those costs amount to about Kshs4,000 or Kshs5,000. Those costs are actually borne by the hospital. Most of the people who die within the hospitals and are stored in the"
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