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Endometriosis ruined my joy, health, and almost took my life

June Kathoki during the interview in Kariobangi, Nairobi, on March 22, 2025. [David Gichuru, Standard] 

On a fateful day in 2018, June Kathoki, then just 27, swallowed an entire container of pills and lay down to sleep, hoping she would wake in the celestial realm of the departed.

Fate had other plans. June is a Health Records Officer at a local hospital

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