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How an unusual request for a belt aided suicide inside hospital in Homa Bay

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The Homa Bay County Teaching and Referral Hospital, where a man died by suicide.

Photo credit: George Odiwuor| Nation Media Group

Every time his family visited him at the Homa Bay County Teaching and Referral Hospital, Mike Juma made a peculiar request, he would ask for a belt.

Juma, 38, had been diagnosed with Tuberculosis (TB) and was undergoing treatment in an isolation ward within the hospital.