Radiotherapy treatment at Mulago Hospital using the old Cobalt 60 machine bought 21 years ago. Uganda's only radiotherapy machine has broken down leaving over 17,000 cancer patients in jeopardy. PHOTO | FILE
Uganda will airlift only 400 of its 17,000 cancer patients, who need radiotherapy care, to Kenya after its only treatment machine broke down last week, a government official said.
The State minister for Health, Dr Chris Baryomunsi, told Parliament that The Aga Khan Hospital in Nairobi had offered to assist only 400 Ugandans who need radiotherapy care as government procures a bunker for a new machine.
