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Governor Mutua unveils cancer care center in Machakos. [Erastus Mulwa]
The fight against cancer scourge in the country received a major boost Thursday after Governor Alfred Mutua opened the Machakos Cancer Care and Research Center at the Machakos Level 5 teaching and referral hospital.
The facility, touted as the first of its kind by a county government in Kenya, will offer screening, diagnosis, counseling, chemotherapy treatment and management free of charge to residents of Machakos County registered in the Universal Health Coverage program.
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