Soldiering on: A week’s diary in my life as a kidney-failure patient

James Meme (on bed) at Kenyatta National Hospital where he is going Kidney Dialysis with him is his sister (center) Jerusa Kinya and his wife Catherine meme during an interview with The Standard. [PHOTO: BEVERLYNE MUSILI/STANDARD]

NAIROBI KENYA: Many admired his astute and shrewd character for the three and a half decades he served as a senior Administration Police (AP) officer.

Fast forward to March 2014 and Mr James Meme Kaluma is battling a condition haunting more than 8,000 other Kenyans today, kidney failure. They are in a medical dilemma, do they seek treatment in India or Kenya?