Device enhances cancer screening

Lucy Kanja, a nurse at Mbagathi Hospital in Nairobi, demonstrates how to use the mobile device that enhances visual sreening for cervical cancer. The device was recently used to examine participants at the public cervical cancer screening at Kenyatta International Convention Centre. [PHOTO: DAVID NJAAGA/ STANDARD]

As the world relies on technology to make disease diagnosis timely and efficient, checking for cervical cancer has been made easier, thanks to a new device.

Using a smartphone that enhances visual inspection of the cervix, the device was effectively used at a recent public cervical cancer screening at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre in Nairobi.