OUR SERVICES

01

Modern Cold Storage & Preservation

We introduce contemporary refrigeration and body preservation systems meeting international biosafety and dignity standards - replacing ageing infrastructure, eliminating capacity bottlenecks, and ensuring that every individual in our care is maintained with the respect their family expects and deserves.

02

Hospital Mortuary Services Integration 

Seamless alignment of mortuary operations with the

hospital's clinical workflow — including structured

handover protocols between wards and mortuary staff,

standardised documentation, and a clear, unbroken

chain-of-custody from admission to family release. No

gaps. No errors. No ambiguity.

03

Forensic capability

Seamless alignment of mortuary operations with the

hospital's clinical workflow — including structured

handover protocols between wards and mortuary staff,

standardised documentation, and a clear, unbroken

chain-of-custody from admission to family release. No

gaps. No errors. No ambiguity.

04

DIGITAL BODY TRACKING SYSTEM

A real-time digital registration and tracking platform recording body admission, storage
location, examination status, and release - eliminating administrative error, providing

families with transparent status updates, and generating the data infrastructure needed for
county-level mortality analysis and health planning.

05

DISASTER PREPAREDNESS

Surge-capacity protocols and temporary storage capability ensuring every UTU-managed
mortuary can respond effectively and with dignity to mass casualty incidents. A critical gap
in most county hospital mortuaries — and one that this model directly, permanently closes.

06

STRICT BIOSAFETY PROTOCALS

World Health Organization (WHO) and Kenya Ministry of Health-aligned biosafety standards across all mortuary functions — including PPE provision, infection prevention and control procedures, and staff health monitoring. Because protecting the living is inseparable from honouring the deceased. The safety of our teams, and your teams, is never negotiable.

01

Mbagathi County Referral Hospital

Mbagathi County Referral Hospital — a 320-bed Nairobi County referral facility serving a

catchment population of over one million people, handling approximately 1,000 outpatient
cases daily at a 200% inpatient bed occupancy rate, operating 24-hour mortuary services,
and having recently been recognized as the Best Public Hospital in Nairobi County —
represents an ideal pilot site for UTU's Hybrid Integrated Mortuary Model. This is precisely
because its extraordinary case volumes, urban catchment density, existing mortuary service
provision, demonstrated institutional appetite for partnership-driven infrastructure
upgrades, and proximity to Kenya's national forensic, judicial, and law enforcement
ecosystem in Nairobi collectively create the highest-pressure, highest-visibility operational
environment in which the model's six pillars - modern cold storage, clinical integration,
forensic capability, digital body tracking, disaster preparedness, and biosafety - can be
stress-tested, validated, and showcased to county governments and development finance
partners across Kenya as the undeniable national standard.

02

Kakamega County Teaching and Referral Hospital

Kakamega County Teaching and Referral Hospital is a flagship 750-bed ultra-modern facility - the first of its kind commissioned by a county government in Kenya - designed to serve not only Kakamega's residents but a catchment area spanning 13 counties across the Lake Region, incorporating a dedicated funeral home within its planned facilities Prospect and already designated by the Health Cabinet Secretary for elevation to a Level Six Hospital. The hospital serves as the primary public referral facility for Kakamega, Vihiga, Bungoma, and Busia counties - making it the single most strategically significant greenfield healthcare institution in Western Kenya in which UTU's Hybrid Integrated Mortuary Model can b embedded from the ground up, before entrenched legacy practices take hold. With active national government engagement at the level of the Principal Secretary for Medical Services focused on the hospital's completion and operationalization, the current pre-operational window presents a rare and time-sensitive opportunity for UT to shape the mortuary.

03

Siaya County Referral Hospital

Siaya County Referral Hospital is a 360-bed facility serving over one million people as the only hospital in the district, routinely operating beyond capacity in one of the poorest regions of Kenya, which has the highest rates of morbidity and mortality in the country due to infectious diseases including HIV/AIDS and malaria - generating sustained, high-volume mortuary demand. More importantly, the county referral hospital mortuary currently offers only embalming services with a capacity of just 24 bodies, lacking the cold storage, forensic, and biosafety infrastructure that the communities it serves urgently deserve. This acute gap between the scale of need and the current standard of mortuary provision — combined with an active county government commitment to modernizing mortuary services - makes Siaya County Referral Hospital one of the most compelling and impactful pilot sites available to UTU, offering both the institutional appetite for transformation and the human development imperative that gives the Hybrid Integrated Mortuary Model its deepest purpose.

Utu Mortuary Services Ltd. is the implementing vehicle of FUSAK — Kenya's national body for the funeral services profession. Every standard we deploy, every protocol we introduce, and every training programme we deliver is grounded in FUSAK's accumulated expertise, institutional relationships, and commitment to raising the bar for how Kenya honours its dead.

CONTACT & PARTNERSHIP

Whether you are a hospital administrator seeking to elevate your mortuary standard, a county government looking to fulfill your commitment to dignified public services, a development finance partner who recognizes the transformative potential of this model, or a family seeking information about our services — we want to hear from you.