Nakuru families agonise over bedbug infestation – Standard Digital

A community health worker fumigates one of the houses infested with bedbugs in Rhonda Estate in Nakuru County. [Harun Wathari, Standard]Mary Achieng has been spending sleepless nights trying to fight bedbugs that have infested her house. At times, the mother of three from Rhonda Estate in Nakuru spends the night fighting the insects using hot water, but they seem to be on a revenge mission.She also tried to use concoctions of detergents but this too has never worked. The bugs, she says, have taken over her house robbing her of the comfort of sleeping in a bed.I have not known peace of relaxing on a couch or have a sound sleep for the past three years. We keep moving from the bed, to the chairs, we sometimes find ourselves on the floor, she said.Acheing also blames the bedbugs for her childrens poor performance in school. They dont concentrate during lessons since most of the time they are dosing off having not slept well at night, she added.Achieng cant also remember the last time she had a visitor in her home as she fears they bedbugs would ruin their visit.I always come up with excuses whenever someone requests to visit me, these things are all over even on the walls, it is such a shame but it is also such a helpless situation to find one at, she said.

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