Relatives of the Garissa terrorist attack victims wait for information
on their loved ones at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi on April 3,
2015. Some of the bodies of the students killed in the attack have been
flown to Nairobi. PHOTO | ANTHONY OMUYA |
NATION MEDIA GROUP.
Bodies of students killed in terror attack on
Garissa University College started arriving in Nairobi on Friday, with
the first batch of 48 shipped in Kenya Air Force plane.
The
plane touched down at Wilson Airport a few minutes to 2pm and were
transferred to Chiromo Mortuary, from where families will help in
identifying them.
Health Cabinet
Secretary James Macharia said the government has set up a National
Disaster Operations Centre to assist families and friends of victims
with information on the status of their loved ones.
“The
families can get the list of victims who passed away (read were killed)
during the attack and where their kin can receive the body. Also, there
is a manifest of students who survived the attack, where they are at
the moment and how they can be linked to their families,” said Mr
Macharia.
BODIES TRANSFER
At
Nyayo stadium, he said, there will be information and assistance for
processing transfer of bodies from Chiromo Mortuary, receiving and
transfer of survivors.
The crisis
operations centre is being run by officials from various ministries, and
it is also offering psychosocial support and counselling services.
He said the 500 students who survived would be ferried to Nairobi using National Youth Service buses.
FACILITIES STRETCHED
Further,
the CS said since facilities at Garissa Level Five Hospital have been
stretched, the ministry had dispatched a truck with medical supplies.
“We
have also sent a total of six medical staff, two surgeons and four
doctors and nurses, to help,” Mr Macharia told journalists at Wilson
Airport.
He said the government would pay the medical bills of all victims.
“No one will be required to pay anything for whatever services provided,” he said.
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