Kenyatta University hospital receives Cyberknife cancer treatment machine from the US

Kenyans can now access cancer treatment services at a much cheaper cost after Kenyatta University Teaching Research and Referral Hospital- KUTRRH, received a cancer treatment machine from the U.S the machine, cybernife, will facilitate painless non-invasive procedures on prostrate, liver, lung, breast and brain cancers among others. The equipment will be launched end of November. KUTRRH management board chairperson Professor Olive Mugenda announced Kenyans will receive the services at 350,000 to be covered fully by NHIF. Kenya is reportedly the second African country to have received this cancer treatment equipment after Egypt.