Cancer specialist sets sights on low-cost care

Dr Catherine Nyongesa explains how the LINAC radiotherapy machine works at Texas Cancer Centre. PHOTO | SARAH OOKO.

As an oncologist at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) Catherine Nyongesa knows the suffering that cancer patients go through waiting for between six months to a year for treatment.

Despite being the national referral hospital, KNH has only two radiotherapy machines — the only ones in the entire public health sector.

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