Body stuck in UAE morgue as family can't afford repatriation costs

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Body stuck in UAE morgue as family can't afford repatriation costs

"I have the documents to release her and bring her body home, but I cannot afford it."

Over 25 days after an Ugandan lady died in a road accident here, her body is still in a hospital funeral home as her family can't bear to take it back home to Naguru, Uganda.

Olivia Nawbosa Nantale, the more youthful sister of unfortunate casualty Mariam Kilyokya, is in tears as she has been moving between different government departments, looking for help for the repatriation of her sister's remaining parts. "I have the records to discharge her and bring her body home, yet I can't bear the cost of it. The family she worked for isn't eager to help, and protection cases will take a while, if not years. I can't hold up that long," said Olivia, a 29-year-old who functions as a school cleaner in Ajman.

Mariam's body is right now in a funeral home at Al Qasimia Hospital in Sharjah. Olivia said she got the 'greatest stun of her life' when the Sharjah Police educated her that Mariam, 32, was murdered in a mishap on Al Ittihad Road on December 29, 2018.

The police said "the driver that caused the mishap was captured and the case was alluded to the traffic open indictment". As indicated by a restorative report from Al Qasimia Hospital, Mariam endured extreme inside draining and had different effect wounds everywhere on her body.

Mariam, a widow, left her six kids with her more youthful sister in Uganda to fill in as a housemaid in Sharjah. "She started to fill in as a servant in March 2018 and had left the activity in October. From that point onward, she was looking for another business," Olivia said.

"The children (matured 13, 11, nine, seven, five and three) are back home with our sister Sauda. Mariam came here to win some cash for her children as their dad kicked the bucket a couple of years prior. Presently, the kids don't have any guardians," said Olivia as tears spilled down her face.

"After the mishap, for two days, I didn't realize the end result for her. I continued calling her on the telephone and nobody was getting. On January 1, I was educated that she had passed on in a mishap. It was an on-the-spot passing. I couldn't bid a fond farewell to her."