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Less than a week after a Kenyan woman hanged herself after she was diagnosed with cancer, a man from Laikipia County has committed suicide over the same reason.
65-year-old Tabathia Mugambi from Kwa Mwaura village in Laikipia East Sub-county killed himself in his house on Thursday evening, Laikipia County Police Commander Maxwell Nyaema confirmed.
“The deceased left behind a suicide note that was found in his house about 200 meters from Kalalu trading center. It stated that he did it on his own and his wife Teresia Kabariti Nyokabi should not be asked anything,” Nyaema said.
His body was found dangling from a rope inside the house hours after he underwent cancer screening at one of the hospitals.
It was not immediately established what type of cancer the deceased was diagnosed with. His body was taken to Nanyuki Teaching and Referral Hospital mortuary.
This week, 40-year-old Purity Muthoni from Naivasha, Nakuru County committed suicide after she was diagnosed with breast cancer at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) in Nairobi.
Muthoni had been undergoing treatment in various hospitals after she developed a growth on one of her breasts but doctors were yet to discover she had cancer. After failing to recover, she decided to seek medication at KNH, where she was diagnosed with cancer.
After she was diagnosed, the deceased traveled back to Naivasha, where she had been living with her sister. She hanged herself with a rope shortly after her sister left her house in Kasarani Estate.
Confirming the incident, Naivasha OCPD Samuel Waweru said her body was moved to Naivasha Hospital Mortuary.
“According to the sister, the deceased received results that she was suffering from breast cancer and she went into depression before committing suicide,” Waweru said.
Joyce Wangui, a neighbor, said the deceased informed her friends that she did not want to experience the kind of pain cancer patients go through.
“She waited until the sister had gone to work before using a rope to commit suicide after telling her friends that she did not want to undergo the pain other cancer victims had gone,” said Wangui.
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Think about providing counseling to folks whenever you about to disclose such devastating news. Not all cancers are terminal but again with the useless health system you have maybe all cancers are fetal in Kenya
We are cursed with very bad greedy leadership.It is worse than cancer...heartless men and women in parliament who only think about themselves and their pleasure and comfort.But there is a God in heaven who cannot be moked by a human
The AIDS victims who were traumatized and either committed suicide or depressed themselves to death will regret to know the new developments in living with AIDS. Cancer is not painfull. And if it is, then the pain control treatments available can contain any amount of pain. And nobody will blame you for having cancer unlike AIDS where some misinformed people blame it on careless sex. Why leave behind a legacy that you commited suicide? Let God do his work of taking away your life. Do no help Him.
Kogratulations to this fellas who r eliminating themselves because they fear getting sick n bin in pain?It has nothing to do with the devil or depression as many would argue.Wacha wenye wanataka kwenda waende.They r all adults n it's their rights n wishes to do so.
All the deaths from cancer and many other curable diseases should be attributed to the corrupt state, including the executive, this is worse than genocide, just imagine how many deaths resulting from corruption and ineptness of these goons, no wonder we are called shithole country
We need to blame our self since without us this corrupt politicians could not be inflicting pain on us it's just we were not wise enough to elect clean individual not tribes.
We hardly make the right decision on vetting individual who want to run for a public office we always fail due to hand out from the same politicians who in turn have already known our poverty and take advantage to exploit us with dirty cash let's raise up and say no to hand out and no corruption and we will survive from cancer and other diseases cause we will be having medicine,Nurses and enough Doctors who are paid highly and there will be no strikes and that is my opinion.
Desperate Kenyans, desperate times. Cancer scourge is a death sentence to ordinally Kenyans who can't imagine the pain they have to go through with meagre resources. And instead of these greedy foolish leaders making resources available to treat cancer patients free of charge, these morons are spending millions attending useless seminar, accompanied by their concubines, at Nashville, Texas. No wonder more than 60 of them are battling cancer using taxpayers money. Shindwe pepo mbaya!