Police are investigating an incident where a policewoman bled and died in a botched abortion mission in Kabiru, Kawangware, Nairobi.
The incident happened at a private hospital in the area. Police said a nurse on duty and his driver were arrested on Wednesday as part of the probe into the incident.
Abortion is common in most health facilities and is usually on request.
The police constable was taken to a hospital in Kawangware while unconscious after being transferred from another facility.
Witnesses said she was bleeding then.
A doctor at the facility where she had been rushed to in a private car on Wednesday dawn said she was dead and there was no need to move her in.
Police and the doctor said the police officer who was on leave from her place of work in Embakasi may have been induced to effect labour which called for a visit to the first facility.
She died out of bleeding. The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy, police said.
Abortion in Kenya is not generally permitted but is allowed in cases where the life or health of the mother is at risk, or when permitted by law.
This is stipulated in the Kenyan Constitution and further clarified in the Penal Code, which criminalizes abortion but with exceptions for cases involving the mother’s health or life.
Elsewhere in Kulamawe, Isiolo, police rescued and took a 15-year-old mother from the banks of a river to the hospital with a dead infant.
The girl had delivered the baby in her house before the infant died. The cause of the death was not known immediately following the June 16 incident.
The girl then decided to go the banks of a river in the area where she was found in a mourning state.
The girl and the infant were taken to the hospital and mortuary, respectively, police said.
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