murchr wrote:T-Bag wrote:Building a 300B railway line with one cancer treatment machine? .........................
The rail will bring more money to buy treatment machines
How?
Your statement would have been correct if we were losing opportunities due to over capacity of the present line. But is the present line working at its maximum?
Also, the present line mainly serves the hinterland states (Uganda, Congo, Rwanda), so what happens to their cargo after Nairobi? Will it be transferred to the old metre gauge line? And if so, are there cranes (or whatever is used) to transfer the cargo from standard gauge wagons to metre gauge wagons?
Are you aware that the existing metre gauge line could have been converted to standard gauge at a much cheaper cost? The biggest variation would have been getting rid of the meanders of the present line since fast trains need fairly straight rails.
SGR is a fraud on Kenyans.
Onto the famed 38billion equipment leasing project. What's the use of diagnostic equipment without treatment equipment? This project will give us needed equipment for other ailments but will not address cancer.
On to the present broken KNH cancer treatment equipment. Is it true that they didn't break down due to overuse, but due to lack of AVR (voltage regulators) which protect equipment from power surges, something even a simple person like me uses at home to protect my tv, fridge, tenje?