Nairobi, June 10 -- RVL Healthcare, a private healthcare provider, is establishing a Sh601.2 million specialist cancer hospital in Nairobi's Nyari area as part of efforts to expand oncology care in Kenya.

Disclosures said the facility, set to be built on a 9.3-acre parcel of land on the Westlands-Red Hill Link Road, will offer specialist services in surgical oncology, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, bone marrow transplantation, nuclear medicine, interventional radiology and palliative care.

"In Kenya, the state of public health poses a severe challenge to health care providers for multiple reasons. One of the main challenges includes medical infrastructure for the diagnosis of cancer and treatment," the firm said in a regulatory filing...