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Residents of Kiharu, Murang’a undergo check-ups during a free medical camp, which was facilitated by Safaricom Foundation at Muchungucha Primary School. The foundation has set aside Sh37 million to facilitate 12 free medical camps countrywide targeting high-population areas. [PHOTO: BONIFACE GIKANDI/STANDARD]
The Safaricom Foundation has set aside Sh37 million to facilitate 12 free medical camps country wide targeting high population areas.
Safaricom Foundation Trustee Janice Mwendameru said in the medical camps, the experts will also be carrying out prostate cancer screening for men who in the past have been shying away despite threat on their lives.
Mwendameru, who was speaking at Muchungucha Primary School in Kiharu said the foundation's construction of maternity wings and rehabilitation of health centres was intervention measures towards improved health care.
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