A section of Nakuru residents have welcomed the government's mega health plan to improve the sector in the country.
The Sh38 billion health plans seek to introduce state-of-art health facilities in all counties to cope with cancer and kidney diseases.
Under the plan, each county will get intensive care units, cancer diagnosis equipments and dialysis machines.
James Mwaniki, a chemist at Nakuru Town said that the health plan would relieve the agony being witnessed by cancer patients.
“The health plan by the government is a relieve to cancer patients who have been on a waiting list for more than a year after been diagnosed with the disease,” said Mwaniki.
For Stephen Kamau, a driver from Nakuru, who has lost four members of his family from the killer disease, the move came at the right time when many cancer patients are suffering silently waiting for their death.
“The government's move has come at the right time when many cancer patients are suffering due to limited equipments and high costs of treatment,” said Kamau.
The residents said that rural people would now have a chance to get treatment at county levels, and at affordable rates.
They also urged the government to train more cancer specialists as the country has few oncologists.
Efforts to cope with cancer has been complicated by the fact that the country has two hospitals-Kenyatta National Hospital and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital – the only public hospitals capable of handling cancer patients.