Family seeks Sh1m to bring back kin’s body from Saudi
A Kenyan family is appealing for financial assistance to repatriate the body of their daughter, who died in Saudi Arabia. The family is struggling to cover mounting hospital and mortuary bills.
Why it matters
This highlights the challenges faced by migrant workers and their families regarding medical emergencies and the high costs of international body repatriation.
Fridah Kageni Murage passed away on July 9 at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, after suffering from an illness/ ALICE WAITHERA A family in Embu is appealing to the government and well-wishers to help repatriate the body of their daughter from Saudi Arabia, where she died over a week ago.
Fridah Kageni Murage, from Njukiri village in Manyatta constituency, died on July 9 at a hospital in Riyadh.
Her body is preserved in a morgue with the bill continuing to accrue.
"We are pleading with the government and all well-wishers to help us bring our daughter's body back home. We have no means of raising the money needed and all we want is to give her a decent burial," Fridah's father Samuel Murage said.
About Sh1 million is required to clear outstanding hospital bills, mortuary charges and the cost of transporting the body back to Kenya.
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