@Kamundu, when you visit the maternity wards of Kenyatta or Pumwani, you'll find many women with children who've not even received a visit from the fathers or husbands for months after 'discharge'.

For a couple in the 'slums' getting even ten thousand shillings is a huge problem, and it's so shameful even for the man to step into the hospital for a visit.

Just the other day someone was recounting what his father used to do during meal time. The father would cook a big ugali and two eggs for himself and announce that ugali was for all, but each was to find his own 'mboga'. That's how children end up dragging magnets along ditches and end dying as robbery suspects.

Most girls are wives when childless and young, after that they are on their own. That's poverty for you. It doesn't know 'wife', 'child', 'father', or 'husband'.

Am not sure @Pastor M needs any advice. Or isn't he a pastor in some church/ministry with a congregation? A diocese or something? Or am I expecting too much?

If there's anyone who needs help, then it's the bereaved child and I have no bread for him, only stones.

I think @ Pastor M you are on the right path.Let them hold a memorial service after 21 days to bring closure to the matter.

Whatever money they collect should assist the living left behind and not going to Kenyatta who have the ability but lacking the will to waive the funds.

Let Kenyatta keep and dispose the body.Keep counselling them.

such costs are not covered under Jubilee manifesto's free maternity services which was launched as soon as Jubilee came to power?

Pastor, Pole.

1. But the question that I'm asking can KNH after burying the Body still follow the family for payment of the Bill? No. Once they bury or cremate the body, they close that case and will not follow the family for funds again.

2. Another question that I ask myself why would do they retain the body and dispose the Body will that assist in payment of the Bill? No. It's a revenue collection policy and while giving consent for admission, there must be a clause that allows them to do that.

It's very hard to raise money or get the required attention over a dear departed one. It is a bit easier when they are alive.

The ONLY option left is to collude with the attendants at the KNH mortuary for them to release the body to you.

Give them some cash, let them release her body to you through some clerical or intentional mistake and then tag another Jane Doe with her name (or declare it lost).

These are the same guys who dispose, cremate or bury these bodies or they donate them to UON for anatomy training.

But since you are a Pastor, you might not go down that path.

@Jguru its funny,short and cheap way of getting the Body but its the wrong way and I cannot advise to follow that path.Thanks all for your comments.I think I will continue counseling them and let the Hospital bury the Body or maybe My God will intervene and a miracle may happen...which may also remove the family from poverty.