💔 The Silent Cry Before the Silence: The Tragic Death of Dr. Susan Toto Touch Raises Tough Questions
The country is still in shock following the untimely and disturbing death of Dr. Susan Kamengere, popularly known as Susan Toto Touch a vibrant, outspoken mental health advocate, mother, and survivor of bipolar disorder. Her death has raised serious questions about mental health care practices, patient rights, and the abuse of psychiatric authority.
But perhaps most chilling is the final Facebook post she shared hours before she was confirmed dead.
“They will never have peace!” she wrote followed by a detailed, emotional, and terrifying account of how four nurses, two men and two women stormed her home, forcibly injected her, and dragged her away in a white car.
That post has since been deleted. And now, Susan is no more.
🩺 What Happened to Dr. Susan Toto?
According to her own words, shared publicly on Facebook on the evening of July 15, Susan had just wrapped up a peaceful day. She had two clients scheduled and was preparing for an international interview later in the week.
Then came the knock that wasn’t even a knock.
Susan describes how four nurses entered her home without notice or consent allegedly under the instruction of her estranged partner, Alois, and psychiatrist Dr. Onyancha. The nurses told the guard they had been “authorized,” and without any verification or legal documentation, they were allowed in.
She and her househelp initially thought it was Kenya Power staff. Within minutes, she was pinned down on her bedroom carpet, forcibly injected in both thighs by two female nurses while being held down by the two men.
"I was in pain. I cried. I pleaded. I told them I have clients. I told them I have an interview. I told them I was on my menses, wearing a soaked pad, and hadn’t even been allowed to change. I told them I had children. But they didn’t stop."
She wrote about how she was stripped of her dignity, her freedom, her voice, and her rights as a human being. Phones were confiscated, her home violated, and her consent utterly ignored.
🚨 “I Am Under Forced Admission.”
After the first injections, Susan was thrown into a white car, she managed to take a photo just before her phones were taken. The doors were on child lock. She was transported to Chiromo Rehabilitation Centre, where she received two more injections.
“From today, you cease to be my psychiatrist,” she wrote angrily in her final message to Dr. Onyancha, accusing him and Alois of collusion, turning her treatment into a business without her consent.
She even questioned why grief, especially that of losing her mother, was seen as a symptom of madness requiring sedation.
“Why are social media influencers allowed to grieve publicly, cry online, post endless memories of their loved ones, but when I talk about my mum’s death, I’m injected and taken to rehab like a criminal?”
📢 The Deleted Post & The Outcry
That heart-wrenching post was deleted shortly after it went live. Not long after, Susan was confirmed dead at the same facility she had been dragged to against her will.
And now, voices from across the country are rising.
Popular radio host Baby Top (Muthoni wa Kirumba), a close friend of Susan, posted in heartbreak:
“They will never have peace! RIP my friend Dr. Susan Toto Touch 😭😭😭😭😭”
An outcry has erupted online. Many are calling for an immediate and thorough investigation into Chiromo Rehabilitation Centre, where Susan was admitted and died under unclear circumstances. The facility is now being treated as an active crime scene.
⚖️ A Call for Justice
This is not just about one woman. It's about every person living with a mental health condition. Every woman grieving. Every mother who is silenced. Every patient whose bodily autonomy is denied in the name of “treatment.”
Susan’s death exposes a terrifying truth: our systems can be manipulated to silence, not heal.
She was a mental health warrior. She spoke about healing. She inspired people. She had plans. She was not a statistic.
Now, her children are motherless. Her clients left in confusion. Her voice silenced, but not forgotten.
🕯️ We Demand Justice for Dr. Susan Toto.
- 🔍 Immediate independent autopsy with family and third-party observers present.
- ⚖️ Legal action against those involved in her forced admission and any staff involved in mistreatment.
- 🏥 Investigation into Chiromo Rehabilitation Centre and other psychiatric facilities for human rights violations.
- 📢 Mental Health Bill reforms to protect patients from forced medication, abduction-style admissions, and manipulation by relatives.
💔 Susan's last words were not written in vain. They were a cry for help, a call for dignity, a resistance against being reduced to a diagnosis.
Her life mattered.
Her pain was real.
Her death must not go unaccounted for.
🕊️ Rest in Power, Dr. Susan Toto Touch.
Your voice echoes in every person fighting for mental health justice today.
