Machakos has many illegal clinics, doctors

MACHAKOS: Some private clinics and chemists in Machakos County have been transformed into factories of death by unscrupulous medics. Investigations by The Standard showed that these clinics and chemist outlets usually conduct illegal abortions.

The Standard managed to get confessions of close confidants of owners of some of the health facilities where such operations are said to be procured as well as first-hand testimonies of young women who literally brushed shoulders with death because of abortion related complications.

According to sources, Matuu, Kathiani, Tala, Kangundo, Mutituni and Machakos towns are the county's leading 'abortion hotspots'. In Machakos, two privately run clinics located near Bus Park in central business district and another one in Eastleigh, off Machakos-Wote Road, carry out illegal abortions. Sources say majority of their clients are students. Two privately-owned clinics based within the town, off Garissa higway, have been running the business. In Kathiani along the Kathiani-Kangundo road, another private clinic has been reported to be procuring abortions.