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Quality care for childhood cancer a right, not a favour
A patient undergoes cancer screening at the Integrated Molecular Imaging Center (IMIC) located at the Kenyatta University Teaching Referral and Research Hospital.
Photo credit: File | Lucy Wanjiru | Nation Media Group
A mother called me a few years ago, asking me to get a job for her son. This would have been a typical Kenyan-style request. What is different is that the young man had been treated for childhood cancer a decade and a half earlier.
He had completed treatment, gone through school and college, and was looking forward to joining the job market. Another parent could not hide her tears of joy as she narrated how her son, who was treated for cancer aged two, is now coping well in preschool.
