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Only four cancer patients to be treated in Kenya

Matooke Republic by Matooke Republic
May 20, 2016
in Featured Photos, Featured Stories, News, Uncategorized
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A Ugandan women receives radiation treatment for cervical cancer at the Mulago Hospital, in Kampala, Uganda, July 19, 2013.  While Uganda was able to get a handle on the AIDs epidemic through ARV drugs and assistance from the international community, the country still struggles with how to treat and diagnose an overwhelming number of Cancer patients across the country.  Thousands are currently being treated by only a handful of trained Oncologists in the entire country of Uganda; basic chemotherapy and Cancer medicines are often in short supply or unavailable, the radiation machine is outdated, in-patient beds are limited, and most Cancer patients can not afford transportation fare to reach diagnosis and treatment in Kampala from villages across the country.  (Credit: Lynsey Addario for The New York Times)

A Ugandan women receives radiation treatment for cervical cancer at the Mulago Hospital, in Kampala, Uganda, July 19, 2013. While Uganda was able to get a handle on the AIDs epidemic through ARV drugs and assistance from the international community, the country still struggles with how to treat and diagnose an overwhelming number of Cancer patients across the country. Thousands are currently being treated by only a handful of trained Oncologists in the entire country of Uganda; basic chemotherapy and Cancer medicines are often in short supply or unavailable, the radiation machine is outdated, in-patient beds are limited, and most Cancer patients can not afford transportation fare to reach diagnosis and treatment in Kampala from villages across the country. (Credit: Lynsey Addario for The New York Times)

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bunker --radiotherapyIf you remember, the radiotherapy machine at Mulago last month broke down, leaving in the dark thousands of cancer patients who were relying on radiotherapy for management of their conditions.




Then as public outcries about the patients’ situation mounted, government said it has reached an arrangement with Kenya to have patients in need of radiotherapy flown there for treatment, while a new bunker and machine are set up at Mulago.

The sad news we have is that only four cancer patients, out of the thousands currently being handled by the Uganda Cancer Institute, Mulago, will have a chance to be to flown to Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) for further treatment in Nairobi. This after the Aga Khan Hospital revised its offer to treat 400 patients from Uganda, to a smaller number the ministry of Health is yet to specify.




Yesterday the Director General of Health Services at the Ministry of Health, Dr.Ruth Aceng, said so far only four people have been found to be eligible.
” After tests on several of the patients, so far only four qualify to go for treatment in Nairobi,” Dr. Aceng said. “We are still examining other patients and more who will be found eligible will be recommended too,” she added.
The General of Health Services said that Government is working on the four eligible patients’ transport and accommodation arrangements before they are set off. She added that the Aga Kha Hospital in Nairobi has offered 400 free dozes but revised its offer to treat 400 cancer patients.

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