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Kenya hopes to leverage on nuclear energy by 2022 to control cancer

Nairobi, Kenya: First Lady Margaret Kenyatta today held  extensive discussions with the newly appointed Director  for International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)  Professor Shaukat Abdulrazak over the ravages of cancer in the country.

Prof. Abdulrazak who becomes the new IAEA Director of Africa (Technical Division)   said if all goes as planned, Kenya will have its nuclear energy in the next seven years, a period when the country also hopes to have the first batch of   locally trained oncologists according to the Director of Medical Services Dr. Nicholas Muraguri.

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