Lenders cheered as Kenya binged on medical equipment. Did patients get help?

A patient prepares to undergo a mammogram X-ray picture of the breast to look for early signs of breast cancer in the radiology unit at the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya January 22, 2020. Picture taken January 22, 2020. REUTERS/Njeri Mwangi

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's health minister celebrated the delivery of a CT scanner at a large county hospital, telling journalists that sick patients could now be diagnosed locally.

Nine months later, the scanner has never been used: the hospital has no radiologists. Patients must still travel 160 kilometres from central Nyandarua to Nairobi's overwhelmed Kenyatta National Hospital, where getting scans can take months.