The mental anguish had started two days earlier as she dutifully reported to Nairobi’s Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH) to monitor the progress of her two-year-old daughter, the firstborn born who was quarantined there.
On the third day, baby Lilian Atieno’s bed was empty. Her mother, Phoebe Muga Asiyo, captured these terrifying moments in her memoirs, Phoebe Asiyo: It is Possible, An African Woman Speaks, published by Kenya Literature Bureau.