World Mental Health Day was marked on October 10, 2024, with many employees trapped in toxic work environments, feeling used, abused, and mistreated by their bosses and, sometimes, colleagues.

In June 2021, the body of Dr Lydia Wahura Kanyoro was found inside her car, moments after she had died by suicide, a move that prompted calls to address mental pressure among student medical practitioners.

Last month, the medical fraternity and Kenyans at large were thrown into shock, yet again after Dr Desree Moraa Obwogi, a 26-year-old medical intern at Gatundu Level 5 Hospital, tragically took her own life.