A 14 year-old deaf girl has been hospitalised following complications that likely resulted from a secret FGM exercise.
The girl, said to have undergone the outlawed practice in Kirawi village, Marakwet East, in December 2015, was admitted on Tuesday.
She had been taken to a dispensary but was referred to
Kapsowar Mission Hospital where she is scheduled for an operation.
Doctors said she
bled while at a special school in the area, after she stopped passing urine, a complication associated with female genital mutilation.
Anti-FGM Board chairperson Linah Kilimo said the girl may have been forced to undergo the exercise.
"We are working closely with chiefs to ensure circumcised girls are taken to hospitals for medical attention," Kilimo told The Star on phone.
She called on members of the public to report other incidents following reports that the parents of girls who suffer complications after FGM do not take them to hospital for fear of arrest.
FGM is practiced secretly to avoid detection by security agencies, despite the introduction of the alternative 'Tumdo ne leel' rite of passage, initiated by Elgeyo Marakwet woman representative Susan Chebet.
2015, an estimated 1,200 girls aged between 10 and 16 underwent the practice that resulted in the death of one and the hospitalisation of several others.
to circumcise girls in Embobut and Tot areas of Marakwet East.
that Somali families living in Britain and the US were bringing their daughters to Kenya to secretly undergo FGM as their home countries cracked down on the internationally condemned practice.