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A cemetery.
What you need to know:
- At the City Mortuary operated by Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), the process involves documenting the body, collecting DNA samples, preserving identification records and, if nobody claims the deceased, eventually arranging burial.
When a person dies without relatives or friends coming forward to identify or claim their body, what happens next?
At the City Mortuary operated by Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), the process involves documenting the body, collecting DNA samples, preserving identification records and, if nobody claims the deceased, eventually arranging burial.
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Crisis of unclaimed dead in Kampala CityWhereas the government previously buried one person per grave, resource constraints have resulted in mass burials, with at least 13 bodies being buried in one grave.
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