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| Nairobi girl Joyce Wangari speaks about her mum’s painful demise. |
A young girl has been left with a massive burden on her shoulder following a painful loss. Nairobi girl Joyce Wangari speaks about her mum’s painful demise. Joyce Wangari lost her mother, who was the sole provider and protector for their young family. The heartbroken teenager said she was forced to care for her younger siblings after their mother passed away. She did not have the best relationship with her mother, let alone her father, whom she had never known. “My mum was an alcoholic. She was a heavy drinker, and I guess it was because of the pressure of taking care of us, yet she was struggling.
She even once went to sell our gas cylinder to have money for alcohol,” Wangari painfully said. Wangari asked for KSh 20,000 for hospital bed One day, Wangari received a call that her mother had collapsed along the road and was overbleeding after hitting a stone. Subscribe to watch new videos She rushed to the scene and hurried her mum to a hospital for emergency care as she was losing so much blood. “The hospital told me I had to pay KSh 20,000 for the bed I did not have. I asked them to admit her as I went and looked for the money. However, it was not until I brought the finances that she was admitted,” she recalled.
However, Wangari from Kahawa West, Nairobi, received information that her mum had died the following day. Why was Wangari’s mum’s body cremated? Her mum’s body was put in the morgue as she looked for money to pay more hospital bills and take the body for burial. “After a day or two, they told me they had cremated her body because I had delayed paying for the services. There was nothing I could do, but it hurt me,” she noted. Wangari struggles to care for her younger siblings as she also has her baby with an underlying medical condition. She is homeless and jobless, adding that she does not know any of her relatives as her mother never introduced any to her.
by John Green