Hope alive for patients as city hospital installs modern cancer scanner

Shem Onchoke, hospital radiographers prepares a patient for CT scan at Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital on May 04,2015. The hospital has made larger strides in the health sector that has seen patients from within and without the county access the services. (Photo: Denish Ochieng/ Standard)

Jane Frances Angalia watched last week’s news on the launch of the first imaging test machine for PET-CT scan services with enthusiasm.  

It had been a long time coming, and she says people who have battled cancer or taken care of cancer patients would internalise the excitement she felt over the arrival of the machine.