Lack of essential medicines and technologies may compromise Kenya's fight against Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned.
In a report released on Tuesday, June 10, WHO noted that Kenya, compared to other African countries, is cruising moderately well in implementing policies aimed at eliminating NCDs, but still lags in executing a solid healthcare system for the elimination of the diseases.
WHO noted that despite the country having successfully engineered guidelines for the management of cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and chronic respiratory diseases, the healthcare system still lacks the infrastructural capacity to put the guidelines into action.
According to the UN agency, Kenya has fully achieved several indicators that are used to measure the progress towards the elimination of the diseases.
