Cancer survivors want cheap artificial breasts

Artificial breasts that were given to canncer survivors in Embu meant for women whose breasts have been amputated in course of treatment. (Photo: Joseph Muchiri, Standard)

Breast cancer survivors who have undergone mastectomy want a tax waiver on artificial breasts. A single artificial breast costs at least Sh30,000.

Speaking at Embu Teaching and Referral Hospital where Mercy Step Foundation donated artificial breasts to survivors, palliative care nurse Niceta Njagi asked the government to waive taxes on the prosthesis.