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A ward at the Nakuru County Referral Hospital. [File, Standard]

Kenya’s Health Cabinet Secretary celebrated the delivery of a CT scanner at a large county hospital, telling journalists that sick patients could now be diagnosed locally.

Nine months later, the scanner has never been used: the hospital has no radiologists. Patients must still travel 160km from Nyandarua to Nairobi’s overwhelmed Kenyatta National Hospital, where getting scans can take months.