Schoolgirls reveal how rogue health workers help procure deadly abortions

Risper who terminated her pregnancy at a backstreet clinic [photo courtesy]

Health workers and quack nurses are putting the lives of hundreds of schoolgirls in danger through illegal abortions, investigations by the Saturday Standard can revealed.

For as little as Sh1,500, the village health workers who are expected to help improve the health of the communities within which they operate, help residents procure abortions in their houses, leaving some of the girls either dead or with life-threatening complications.