Âé¶¹Éç

Use Âé¶¹Éç.com or the new Âé¶¹Éç App to listen to Âé¶¹Éç podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Episode details

World Service,4 mins

How Kenya copes with its high number of cancer patients

Focus on Africa

Available for over a year

For a long time lifestyle diseases such as cancer were more likely to have been found in the developed world, while poorer countries had a bigger burden of infectious diseases. But that is changing and cases of non-communicable diseases are on the increase in many African countries and their health systems are struggling to cope. Kenya - which is the continent's sixth largest economy - has only 20 oncologists yet more than 40,000 Kenyans are diagnosed with cancer diseases every year. Âé¶¹Éç Africa's Health Correspondent Anne Soy went to Kenya's national hospital to find out how they are managing the huge increase in the number of cases.

Programme Website
More episodes