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Early marriages still rife among pastoralists

A teenage mother at Ngaramara area in Isiolo Sub County. [Nathan Ochunge, Standard]

Pauline Askuku, 17 was in deep sleep in one of the female wards in Isiolo County Referral hospital.

She woke up to the pungent smell of the hospital disinfectant.

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