Over five years, a clinic in Nairobi quietly led one of Sub-Saharan Africa’s first diagnoses using a video capsule endoscopy (VCE). This is a pill camera that patients swallow, to allow doctors to see deep inside the small intestine, a section that traditional scopes often miss. The Nairobi results, recently published in the Journal of Tropical Medicine, are eye-opening not just for what the cameras found, but also for what they mean for the future of medicine in Kenya. Dr Christopher Opio, a consultant gastroenterologist at Aga Khan University Hospital, says the camera pill has many benefits over traditional endoscopy and colonoscopy, where doctors use a camera attached to a wire to study the gut. “It's one of the only tests that helps your doctor examine your whole small intestine and large intestine,” he said when the Aga Khan University Hospital introduced the procedure.