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Majority of women who walk into Kenyatta National Hospital after abortion gone awry are hardly medically referred cases.
Victims usually have no notes.
Senior Nursing Officer Wycliffe Mirikau told The Nairobian that majority of the patients were just told to go to Kenyatta after developing complications.
“We try using tact to get this information because nobody commits themselves. A while back, we tried to follow up on some notorious clinics. We had noted them down.“ We just wanted to call them for free training, and show them the right method and equipment,” said Mirikau listing notorious clinics being in Waithaka, Kawangware and also Dandora.
He said the methods they use to evacuate cases at the hospital are only for pregnancies that are up to a maximum of 12 weeks.
Mirikau also said there was a pill called Cytotec that was being misused by abortionists.
He told The Nairobian that the pill, initially used to prevent stomach ulcers, was being used for abortion as ‘most people just Google and use it as a homemade solution’.
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