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Hospitals to get gender violence recovery centres for attack victims

About 243 million women and girls were abused last year by an intimate partner globally (Shutterstock)

June cannot forget events that drove her out of her matrimonial home to seek refuge at a safe house in Nairobi.

In May, her husband threatened to kill her and their baby. She then decided to leave.

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