A company from South Africa called Equra Health has spread its footprint in Kenya with the opening of a comprehensive cancer centre in Eldoret.The facility is expected to reduce the burden of thousands of patients who have had to travel to Nairobi for treatment.Equra Health Kenya, which offers clinical, administrative, operational and strategic management services in the cancer care will serve a broader population across Uganda and parts of Rwanda.The centre can treat up to 60 cancer patients a day, bringing advanced cancer treatment to the doorstep of a region otherwise under-served in terms of advanced radiotherapy.“Eldoret was selected due to its extensive regional population and the fact that the town already has a strong medical referral infrastructure and oncology experts like Dr Jesse Opakas, now the main treating clinical and radiation oncologist at the new centre,” said Equra Kenya chief executive Erhardt Korf.The 24-hour in-hospital care facility is equipped with modern radiotherapy equipment.

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