Mishra: I'm ready to face the law if guilty

Dr. Swarup Mishra Chairman and Founder Mediheal Hospitals during an interview at his Office in Nairobi on January 24th 2022[Boniface Okendo, Standard]

Mediheal Group of Hospitals founder, Swarup Mishra says he is ready to face the law if found guilty of organ trafficking allegations.

Speaking on Wednesday at Eldoret branch, Mishra defended the facility's record, insisting it offers world-class kidney treatment.

"Out of 476, we have only ten mortalities in 6 years, if we compare with the world standards we are way better. Everything is there, the death certificates, everything," said Mishra.

The hospital has denied allegations of conducting kidney transplants for patients from Israel and the United States without proper oversight.

According to lawyer Katwa Kigen, who is representing the hospital, all foreign patients had valid medical visas and no illicit financial transactions occurred.

Since being cleared by the Ministry of Health in 2018, Mediheal has performed four hundred and seventy-six (476) kidney transplants, 372 of them for Kenyan patients.

Other recipients have come from Israel (62), Uganda (11), Burundi (7), South Sudan (3), Tanzania (2), Somalia (7), Germany (3), DRC (seven), and the US (one).

The hospital also says no donor has died in the process.

Lawyer Kigen dismissed the ongoing scrutiny as unwarranted, claiming Mediheal is being unfairly targeted despite leading in kidney transplant success rates.

"The question that keeps coming up is why Mediheal and it is often laced with malice. Could it be that it is easy to fetch a kidney? We want to say all that is false and untrue. We offer world-class medical care on the kidney,'' he said.

The hospital has further pledged to cooperate with authorities and provide all necessary data to aid the ongoing investigations.