Health workers grappling with conflict-related sexual violence in Kenya

As Kenya counts the human and material cost of the political violence, hospitals are reporting an increase in reported rapes during the immediate post-election period, spurring the government and health organisations to find ways to treat these cases as well as protect the displaced from further incidents of sexual violence.

16 Jan 2008

A woman runs past burning shacks in Nairobi's Mathare slum during post-election violence. (Image: Julius Mwelu/IRIN)

"In the first two days of the violence, 56 people were treated for rape and admitted; there are so many other victims back in the slums who have not received any medical attention," Lucy Kiama, chief nurse at the Nairobi Women's Hospital, which specialises in sexual violence, told IRIN/PlusNews.

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