A mother has painfully recalled the last moments spent with her daughter who was among the students who died after a food poisoning incident at Mukumu Girls.
The woman named Joyce lost a daughter named Wendy and spoke to Citizen TV where she recounted how she was instructed to pick up her daughter last Tuesday because the child was not feeling well.
“I’ve lost a daughter, I’ve lost a friend I’ve lost my mentor, I’ve lost all,” she addressed the media.
Tests from a Government report indicate that Escherichia coli (E. coli) and salmonella typhi was the causes of the illness at Mukumu Girls and Butere Boys High Schools.
The Mukumu Girls High School parent added that the last time she spoke with her daughter all seemed to be going well in her recovery journey.
“I received information on Tuesday last week from the Deputy Principal of Mukumu Girls that I should pick up my daughter the following day”
Joyce picked up her daughter on Wednesday.
“So that’s what we did we took her to the hospital she was told that she has bacterial infection”
Wendy was given medication and allowed to go home and on Thursday she began her drug regimen.
“She took her medicine well and I communicated with her throughout the day because she was with her elder sister in Bungoma,”.
The following day on Friday, Joyce the mother received the terrible news that her daughter had passed on.
“I received a call that my daughter is not feeling well. So I rushed there but before I reached there I got another piece of information that she had passed on.”
They had spoken over the phone before Wendy’s demise.
“We talked over the phone on Thursday night she told me she is fine and is feeling weak but she was good we just talked, and then in the morning she just collapsed and…just died”
Joyce has eulogized Wendy as a beautiful girl who was loved by many.
Mukumu Girls was subsequently closed on April 3 following the incident that left three learners dead and several others hospitalized.
Last week, the government-linked the disease outbreak at the school to the contamination of water at the institution.