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State to establish Sh2b cancer, dialysis centre in Kisii

Treasury CS Henry Rotich (right) receives loan documents from Arab Bank for Economic Development Chairman Yousef Al Bassam (centre) in Nairobi Wednesday as Kisii Governor James Ongwae looks on. [PHOTO: BEVERLINE MUSILI]

NAIROBI: The Government has signed a US$200 million (about Sh2 billion) loan agreement with a Kuwait based bank to help in the establishment of a cancer and dialysis treatment centre in Kisii County.

The project, funded by the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa and Saudi Fund, will enable Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital (KTRH) to establish the country's third public facility of that nature.

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