On Wednesday, the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) officials asked the government to declare cancer a national disaster.
Speaking at the home of the union’s first vice national chairman, the late Stanley Mutai, the officials led by Nandi KNUT branch executive secretary Boniface Tenai said the government should set aside enough resources to fight the illness.
According to Tenai, many people in the nation have received cancer diagnoses, and immediate action is required to combat the condition.
He questioned why cancer medications had taken so long to be discovered and stated that pharmaceuticals and vaccinations were quickly discovered when COVID-19 and HIV/AIDS attacked the nation.
Malel Langat, the counterpart from Bomet County, stood by him and urged the National Assembly to craft a bill supporting cancer treatment.
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Malel claimed that the condition was too expensive to treat and that many families had become impoverished due to selling up all of their possessions to pay for cancer patients' medications.
On Sunday, Mutai died from cancer while receiving care in the Nairobi hospital.
He will be buried at his Chepngobob home on the outskirts of Brooke Trading Centre on September 16.
