Minimise the agony of cancer patients

For a long time, cancer was considered a disease that afflicted people in the West. Not any more. Kenya is reporting more and more cases of cancer and the strain on patients, families, and health facilities is beginning to show.

The steady rise in the number of new cancer diagnoses is a trend that began in the late 1980s, but the increase in hospital capacity has not been proportional due to poor planning and under-funding of the health sector.