Poor health imposes a heavy burden on society

 Poor health imposes a heavy burden on society


Poor health imposes a heavy burden on society and slows down economic growth.
Illness in the family is one of the major causes of the reduction of incomes and assets of
poor Kenyans. Cancer has had a demonstrated negative impact on households, their
education, as well as in their workforce
productivity. The Kenyan essential drugs list does not include
chemotherapy for cancer. Some of the very essential drugs for pain management are rare
to find in most public hospitals. To concur with the above, Mulemi (2010) asserts that
Cancer is still an under-emphasised public health concern in Kenya. He further argues
that cancer is not a politically visible disease to attract African governments for adequate
budgetary allocations hence resources for research and policy making. The Kenyan
Government equally acknowledges that the need for health services has escalated beyond
the financing capacity of the Ministry of Health points out that there has been little investment in healthcare infrastructure and radio public health services making it impossible to adequately treat patients. Further, while
information on cancer in the developed world abounds in scientific literature, the pool of
studies on Kenya and Africa as a whole is limited on Lessons from Europe, Asia and
North America which informs healthcare professionals and policymakers in Africa,
though disease patterns vary among populations

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