Preventive healthcare can cut hospital expenses

Doctors perform a pacemaker placement surgery at a medical camp in Nairobi. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Kenya is going through an epidemiological shift where there is a decline in morbidity and mortality from communicable diseases like HIV/tuberculosis and an increase in the burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are increasingly straining the health system.

Non-Communicable Diseases such as diabetes, cancer, heart disease and chronic respiratory infections have emerged as conditions of great public health concern in Kenya accounting for 39 percent of deaths annually.

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