Nairobi, March 2 -- Thousands of cancer patients, including those with blood and breast cancer, could be spending up to Sh300,000 a month on some drugs that are available for free at select public and private hospitals.

Kenya has been part of the Max Access Solutions Programme-an international humanitarian drug access partnership for two decades, which supplies high-cost targeted cancer therapies to eligible patients free of charge.

Targeted cancer therapies are drugs designed to interfere with specific molecules or genetic mutations that drive cancer growth, as opposed to traditional chemotherapy, which attacks all rapidly growing cells indiscriminately, including healthy ones.

Under the Max Foundation, the programme partners with glo...