Nairobi, June 18 -- Kenya is emerging as a destination for international investment in specialist healthcare, with foreign and regional providers moving in to address the growing burden of non-communicable diseases and the shortage of advanced cardiac, cancer, and neurological care.

The Ministry of Health's data show that non-communicable diseases (NCDs) accounted for 61.7 percent of all registered deaths in Kenyan health facilities in 2024, up from 52.4 percent in the previous year.

Cancer, for instance, claimed more lives than cardiovascular disease in 2024, with 8,954 deaths (7.9 percent of all facility deaths) against 7,478 cardiovascular deaths (6.6 percent).

For decades, patients seeking complex treatment have been travelling abr...