Police in Embakasi are investigating an incident in which a man died after allegedly consuming an overdose of ARVs.
The 28 year old man, allegedly took drugs meant for two months at once and washed them down with insecticide last week on Thursday.
According to sources, the man who works at a city
It seems he couldn’t get to terms with the new reality and decided to end his life at his house in Pipeline Estate.
From the hospital, the man later took his life in his Pipeline house
“I saw him on the fateful day being ferried by a motorbike from the stage, 200 metres away from his house, which was unlike him but I could not imagine that he was rushing home to take his life,” said Joyce Kemunto, a neighbour.
Two drug containers, an empty 500ml bottle of insecticide and an empty five-litre container smelling of insecticide, were found next to the body.
His friends and family are now blaming Mbagathi hospital for the tragic incident saying there is a probability he did not receive guidance.
His sister who was shocked by the incident, said her brother called her on his way to the hospital for the chest pains treatment.
But she was worried when she called him later and found him offline. She thought that he could have been admitted at the hospital.
“We got worried after failing to find him on phone and told his close friend to go and check on him,” his sister said.
His friends found him dead on his bed with the lights on. They alerted the police who took the body to city mortuary pending a postmortem.