The Nakuru government has been asked to subsidise the cost of cancer treatment to enable the Nakuru Hospice run sustainable care programmes for its 3,000 cancer patients.
The chief executive, Elizabeth Ndung'u, called on the county government to subsidise services such as cancer therapy to enable patients live free of the pains caused by the disease.
"I want to call on county government to subsidise cancer treatment to make it affordable to every member of society," said Ndung'u in her office on Thursday.
Ndung'u admitted that the facility is constrained by vital resources which are required in offering quality services to vulnerable and poor cancer patients in the county.
She said the facility is in dire need of costly drugs which it dispenses free of charge to poor cancer patients.
The hospice's founder member urged men and women to take advantage of cancer screening programmes at medical facilities noting that it is women that are more prone to cancerous infections.
Ndung'u expressed how cancer has affected many families and urged the community to take care of cancer patients just like other diseases.
"We should all care for people suffering from cancer and other life threatening illness," said the director.