Monday, February 10, 2014

Cancer Patients Dying Daily

"Three patients die daily as cancer drugs run out," patients in Uganda are struggling for Cancer Treatment (Agatha Ayebazibwe).  http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Three-patients-die-daily-as-cancer-drugs-run-out/-/688334/2200772/-/fdfgpg/-/index.html

Agatha continues on to say, there is medication However. since patients are given prescriptions and asked to buy the drugs then take them to the facility for administration, which is expensive. The poor cannot afford the medication process (Ayebazibwe). As a result, many are dying,


















This might be a result of poor Healthcare policies in Uganda; look at Article Poor Health Services in Uganda Could Hit Life Expectancy, at http://www.theguardian.com/katine/2009/sep/11/health-news on The Guardian. 




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