By Agwanda Power.

THE medical fraternity have been challenged to report to police authorities cases of gender based violence to curb rising of such cases.

Western Provincial Director of Medical Services Dr. Godrick Onyango says that the elimination of such vices lies with proper information from the medical department.

Onyango says that most of the medical staff in the hospitals tends to shy away from reporting such incidences to the police thus hindering the elimination process.

He says that there should be a concerted effort to assist the judicial process with as much information as possible to pursue such cases and have the culprits punished.

Speaking in Kisumu during a capacity building workshop for health workers to improve on gender based violence and reproductive health service delivery, Onyango also called upon the medical team to reduce cases of maternal mortality rate.

He says that hospitals need to lower charges for pregnant women to lure them to have hospital deliveries as a means of lowering the maternal deaths.

Onyango warned that levying more charges on mothers who seek medical treatment for their children who are under the age of 5 years will only increase the mortality rate among children.

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