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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
Instead of slipping away, she awoke violently, her body convulsing as she expelled the very substances meant to end her life. “I woke up, vomiting my guts out,” she recalls.
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