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Three out of ten people in Nyandarua have been battered, hospitalised

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Nyandarua is now the most dangerous county on gender based violence with nearly three in every ten people having been rushed to hospital with injuries in 2016.

A government funded study, the Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey (KIHBS), shows that 27.6 per cent of residents in the county ended up in hospital after the fight. This is sixteen times the national average of 1.7 per cent.

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