New Sh218m cancer machine idle as crisis bites

As desperate cancer patients possibly die, others lie on hospital beds and at homes, following collapse of the cancer treatment machine at Kenyatta National Hospital, it has emerged that a new Sh218 million cancer treatment equipment has been lying idle for over a month.

The radiotherapy machine known as linear accelerator secured by the tax payer has been at a warehouse owned by Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA). The facility was meant to be used at KNH.