the most refreshing news this weekend was about Anyang Nyong'os new mission in life. A mission to see to it that Kenya has facilities to treat cancer! I believe rather than following the politicking lot, we should all lend a hand in this endevour!

With Kenya having an annual budget of close to a trillion the govt should set aside 10 billion or so so set up a modern facilities to tackle specifically cancer and kidney failure related problems! Why not make is mandatory to have a modern functional dialysis equipment is each provincial hospital for example

Its so little an amount, yet its a matter of life and death to alot of families having patients with cancer or patient who have to queue at Kenyatta national hospital for a dialysis!

Its a worthy cause, better than this ICC deferral stuff!

my 5 cents

Idiot!!!.... He eats Kshs 2,500 lunch at Serena while more than half Kenyans earn less than 80 bob a day....reverse that and all else will fall in place without making missions....NKT!!

Bidanya Barassa and her fight with colon cancer
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Nyong'o could acheive a lot by shelving the proposed extortionate NHIF plan. Not every problem can be solved by throwing money or emotions at it. If well thought out, the NHIF thing could go a long way in achieving his mission, but I am not holding my breath waiting for his announcement.

The fact is that Kenya's healthcare system is in the gutters and no one is doing anything to reform it. The result as someone has pointed out is that so many Kenyans especially kids under 5 die of preventable diseases. Sorting the mess in the healthcare system will never happen using the top bottom approach the professor is advocating.

It is a pity that it took having cancer for the Prof to get the real picture on the lack of cancer care centers in Kenya...

I am assuming he has the real picture.. So many people have died waiting for care!!!!

Incidentally, his late brother was a very good pathologist who sadly died in a nasty accident on Ngong Rd (Near Uchumi Hyper), he was then the Chief Pathologist at Nairobi Hospital.

"We will make Kenya ungovernable!"

Yet in all honesty,the bure professa did not know how to carry out a simple check on his ball's state....Do you really need a doctor to do that?....A mechanic can check your balls for PC!!....PooH!!
Anyway,let's pray that many more ministers (Possibly all of them)can be hit by all possible ailments,travel to US for treatment and come back with a "mission"....hopefully,by 2030,we will have centres for makende cancer,roho,matumbo,maini....Bollocks!

ati if a Minister doesn't have it it doesn't exist..Reminds me of children playing hide and seek. One covers his head with a paper bag and is convinced the rest cant see him (because he can't see them).

@Karqui,
Nime-relax dear plug/socket.....Thing is,leaders should be sensitive about Kenyan's problems long before this "wake-up" calls.How many Kenyans have far much worse conditions than his?.You can't compare this case with say brain cancer,malaria,njaa,Aids,Cervical cancer,TB,heart,kidney,liver and many more worse ailments.At least i can do without makende but not a head....enuff said!