Begging for life: Cancer patient's daily journey from Nyeri to SHA office
Every morning for the past four months, 70-year-old Gatamu Waigwa has risen at 4am in Nyeri to board a matatu to Nairobi.
His destination: the Social Health Authority offices, where he spends entire days until dusk, pleading with officials to save his life.
His crime? Being a cancer patient caught in Kenya's chaotic transition from NHIF to SHA.
Read the full story here: https://nation.africa/kenya/health/-begging-for-life-cancer-patient-s-daily-journey-from-nyeri-to-sha-offices-5127490
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