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 Columbia Asia, one of the largest and fastest-growing healthcare companies in Asia, is expanding its operations to Africa to serve the rising demand from the continent’s middle class for affordable, modern and efficient healthcare facilities   The company’s first facility in . . .

 The United States has donated Sh1.7 billion ($17 million) to Kenya to improve its storage of biomedical materials.   The money will be used to improve storage infrastructure and train public health workers and those in life-sciences like zoology, microbiology, physiology and biochemistr . . .

 Over 200 researchers from Africa and Japan have converged in Nairobi for a two-day joint symposium to explore areas of research in the fight against Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). The conference which started on Thursday brings together NTD Coordinators and Researchers from 40 countries . . .

 The government has invested nearly Sh26 billion in the National Hospital Insurance Fund to ensure that it handles chronic diseases such as cancer that kills more than 39,000 Kenyans annually.   The financing by the government, through the Ministry of Health, is to "ensure universal heal . . .

 The Government plans to establish regional cancer treatment centres in a new strategy to decongest referral hospitals in the fight against the killer disease.   Health Cabinet Secretary Cleopa Mailu said the cancer centres planned for the Coast, Nyanza, Central and Rift Valley regions w . . .