When Brian Mutua, a form three student fell ill during morning preps, his teachers faced a dilemma.

With no school medical fund to rely on since the scrapping of the Edu Afya programme, one of the teachers had to call his parents to take him to a hospital.

Unfortunately, his mother, a casual laborer, could not afford immediate medical care.

Like many other students, Mutua had no option but to endure his sickness until he lost his life. "I felt helpless.