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Kenya is rolling out a plan to emerge as a regional healthcare destination and a pharmaceutical manufacturing hub. The country is a preferred destination for medical tourism for East and Central Africa. It attracts high-quality technology and facilities as well as support from global organizations. Kenya is competing with countries like India in the medical tourism sector
Kenya is rolling out a plan to emerge as a regional healthcare destination and a pharmaceutical manufacturing hub. The country is a preferred destination for medical tourism for East and Central Africa. It attracts high-quality technology and facilities as well as support from global organizations. Kenya is competing with countries like India in the medical tourism sector.
Development in the healthcare sector will enhance the health preparedness of Kenya, which was put to test during the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic. That has caught many countries including Kenya off guard. Countries across the world, especially developing ones, have been caught off-guard as diseases such as Ebola and Marburg emerge, further calling for fixing of emergency health systems.
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To beef up the healthcare facilities, Kenya has installed CyberKnife equipment at the Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral and Research Hospital. This latest high-technology facility is aimed at revolutionizing cancer treatment in Kenya and the wider East African region. It uses high-energy X-rays to destroy cancer cells with pinpoint accuracy, which is also a painless and minimally invasive procedure.
