A promising young Kenyan doctor is among 34 people who died following the deadly Nithi accident that occurred on Sunday early evening.
The doctor was reportedly on her way to collecting a job appointment letter.
Dr. Mary Mwandisha who was 28, graduated with a Bachelor in Medicine from the University of Nairobi in 2020.
That ill-fated Sunday, she had booked seat number 2 and boarded the Modern Coast bus and was on her way to Taita-Taveta where she was scheduled to pick up her appointment letter after a successful interview for a doctor post in the county.
She had been working for three months at Lifetime Hospital in Meru County and was excited to be moving to a better job.
“I spoke to my daughter on Sunday around 4pm and she informed me that she was travelling to Voi from Meru. She had applied for the medical job in Taita-Taveta and emerged successful,” her mother, Angelina Mwandisha, said.
“She told me as usual she would send a text message on arrival in Voi. She had estimated she would be there at around 2am or 3am. The text is yet to come.”
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That Sunday evening, she got a bad feeling that all was not well when she tried to call her daughter. Her mobile phone was switched off.
“I could not get any sleep. I tried to call her but all her two lines were not going through. I tried to call her again at 6am but she was still not reachable,” she said.
The mother said that her son Marsden Mwandisha came the following morning with a group of church members from her church.
“Everybody was hesitating to tell me about the death of my daughter, but I insisted, and then my son told me that Mary was dead,” she said.