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Government to establish regional cancer treatment centres

Health Cabinet Secretary Cleopa Mailu [PHOTO:WILBERFORCE OKWIRI/Standard]

The Government plans to establish regional cancer treatment centres in a new strategy to decongest referral hospitals in the fight against the killer disease.

Health Cabinet Secretary Cleopa Mailu said the cancer centres planned for the Coast, Nyanza, Central and Rift Valley regions would save Kenyans money spent while travelling to Kenyatta National Hospital to access the treatment.

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