Investigations ordered after rape claims in Kenyan Hospital 

Kenya's Health Minister Cleopa Mailu has ordered an investigation into shocking claims that new mothers at the country's main referral hospital in the capital Nairobi have been sexually assaulted.

Mr Mailu tweeted that he was aware of "the alleged rape of mothers on their way to and from the newborn unit" as had been made on social media posts.  

One Facebook user had posted on a page called Buyers Beware that new mothers who had undergone Caesarean sections were especially vulnerable. 

The user said that new mothers were being targeted while on their way to breastfeed their newborn babies who are kept in a different floor. Security is a big issue especially for mothers whose [babies] are in the nursery.

The health minister ordered the hospital's management to beef up security at the facility and submit a report to him by Monday.

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