Sad tales of Kenya cancer patients bearing the brunt of doctors’ strike

University of Nairobi medical students took to the streets on January 19 outside the Ministry of Health offices in Nairobi over the government‘s reluctance to implement the 2013 Collective Bargaining Agreement.

Theresia Muthoni was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1996 and had a mastectomy in 1997. Since then, she has been in remission and has been working as a volunteer with Slopes Cancer Awareness Network, an organistion helping cancer survivors.

Last year, cancer came calling again - this time around it was cervical cancer.