The Cancer scourge in Kenya

Cancer has been one of the terrible diseases in Kenya. The World Health Organization (WHO), through the ministry of health as revealed that 90 people die daily of cancer. This has risen worries to the cancer experts where stomach and colon cancers are increasingly afflicting Kenyans, especially the younger ones. This has made cancer to be ranked the 2nd leading cause of death globally, registering 9.6 m deaths in the previous year.

Cancer has mercilessly taken some of our big people in our country, Kenya. With the recent incident, the Safaricom Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Bob Collymore, went too soon from the blood cancer (Leukemia) as from the doctors’ report. Many well-up cancer victims have been forced to seek some medical attention abroad due to lack of surgery equipment and skilled cancer specialists in our country.