Nairobi, 09 October, 2023 / 9:57 pm (ACI Africa).
St. Theresa’s Eregi Girls High School of the Catholic Diocese of Kakamega in Kenya, which was temporarily closed following an outbreak of a strange illness is reopening this week with a number of psycho spiritual activities including counseling of the students.
The strange illness, which medics later concluded to have been an incident of mass hysteria, saw over 100 students hospitalized with difficulty in walking.
A meeting was held at the school on Friday, October 6, to plan a return formula of the students, who were sent home at the demand of their parents who had accused the school of negligence.
Speaking to ACI Africa after the meeting, Fr. Boniface Kibaki, the Education Secretary in the Catholic Diocese of Kakamega said that all was set to receive the students, starting with those in the junior class who he said would undergo an array of spiritual activities, including counseling and confessions.
“Form Ones will come in first, starting Monday (October 9), followed by the other classes in the course of the week,” Fr. Kibaki said in the October 6 interview, adding that the school had made plans for professional counselors to attend to the young ones as they come to school.