Equipped to care: Kijabe Hospital gets life-saving machine

Technicians at AIC Kijabe Hospital's Radiology department scan an accident victim using a new state of the art 16-slice Siemens Somaton CT-scanner. The equipment is said to be lifesaving especially for emergency patients [GARDY CHACHA/STANDARD]

NAIROBI: Wednesday, October 7, 2015, Kenyans woke to the sad story of a man staring into the abyss of death. Alex Madaga, it was reported, had been a victim of hit-and-run along Waiyaki way in Nairobi.

The driver left him for dead but he would soon discover that the Kenyan health system was about to do worse: Watch, on the sidelines, without apparent concern to save his life.