Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - A female police constable attached to the elite Rapid Deployment Unit (RDU) has died while allegedly terminating pregnancy in Kawangware, Nairobi.
The officer, who was on leave from her Embakasi-based
station, was rushed unconscious to a hospital in Kawangware on Wednesday, June
18th.
She was transferred from another unnamed health facility,
but a doctor at the receiving hospital confirmed she had already died and was
not admitted.
According to police reports, the officer may have been
induced into labour at the initial facility.
She reportedly succumbed to excessive bleeding before
reaching the second hospital.
Her body was taken to the mortuary pending an autopsy.
Police have arrested a nurse on duty and a driver attached
to the clinic for questioning.
This tragic case comes against the backdrop of alarming
national abortion statistics.
Data from the African Population and Health Research Centre
(APHRC) and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NADC) indicates
Kenya recorded 792,694 induced abortions in 2023.
Shockingly, nearly 80% of the women involved were married,
challenging prevailing assumptions about abortion demographics.
Nairobi and Central Kenya recorded the highest abortion
rates at 78.3 per 1,000 women, while Coast and North Eastern had the lowest at
38.7.
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