Nation | by Elizabeth Merab and Leon Lidigu
Kenya is losing her children to cancer due to the high cost of medicines, poor infrastructure, shortage of skilled personnel, lack of proper community awareness and late diagnosis.
According to a recent presentation on the status of childhood cancers in Kenya by Prof Jessie Githanga, a consulting oncologist at the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), the cost of medicines alone is irrationally high, at almost 40 per cent of treatment. As a result, the country is losing eight in every 10 children who are under cancer treatment…
