Four students take KCSE exams in hospital after giving birth

Four new mothers are among the 699,745 candidates sitting for this year’s Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations.

In the first case, the student from St Mary’s Ebusambe Secondary School Matungu Sub County was forced to sit for her examinations in the hospital hours after delivering twins.

She welcomed her double bundle of joy on Sunday evening few hours before this year’s national examinations that kicked off yesterday.

Examination officials declined to allow journalists to see the new mother until when the when she finishes off the tests.

In other cases, some three other candidates also sat their Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCPE) in an Embu County hospital after they gave birth on the eve of the exam.

Embu County Director of Education James Kairu said the candidates who wrote their papers at the Embu Level 5 Hospital maternal wing were from Embu, Kirinyaga and Tharaka-Nithi Counties all in the Mt Kenya East region.

He said they had made the necessary arrangements for the trio to take their exams at the hospitals until they are discharged.

The exams kicked off as planned and proceeded normally with exam managers in place at the expected time, according to Kairu.

He said a helicopter was ready to deliver the exams to schools that might be difficult to access due to poor roads.

Meanwhile, a candidate from Koyonzo Boys High School in Kakamega County was rushed to the hospital during the English Paper 1 examination.

The student is said to have a medical surgery on Friday and was recuperating well but was forced to halt his first paper midway to get medical treatment at Capital Clinic in Koyonzo.

He was accompanied by an invigilator and a security officer to the private clinic where he had undergone the surgical operations days before.

He later proceeded with his paper after the treatment.