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Acute shortage of specialists deals blow to war on cancer

Meru governor Kiraitu Murungi with his wife Priscilla when they graced the World Cancer Day celebrations in Meru county on February 4, 2019. [Olivia Murithi, Standard]

Acute shortage of oncologists and medical staff to manage and treat cancer have been cited as a major challenge deterring the war against the disease in Nyanza.

The shortage has been termed a barrier to health access that has seen many cancer patients who would have been saved, succumb to the disease.

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