NAIROBI, Kenya, Jul 25 – The Aga Khan has urged governments to tap the benefits of private public partnerships to boost healthcare especially cancer, with statistics of 50 Kenyans dying of the disease every day while 82,000 others are diagnosed with the ailment annually.
Speaking during the opening of the Heart and Cancer Centre at Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi, on Monday he expressed concern that unlike in the past when cancer was mostly common in older people, the trend was changing as the disease was spreading to younger people.
“The World Health Organisation warns us that heart diseases and cancer will reach epidemic proportions in the next decade or two unless we take decisive counter-measures. In Kenya alone some 80,000 new cancer cases are diagnosed each year with an unusually high number among young people,” he asserted.
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