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Revealed: Bad attitudes add to the suffering of patients in cancer wards

?Thousands of cancer patients in Kenya are dying in pain, with most being denied medication by health workers, shows a new study. The World Health Organisation estimates 80 per cent of Kenyans dying from cancer suffer, with untreated moderate to severe pain.

This roughly means 26,400 Kenyans who died from cancer last year suffered pain that could have been treated.

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