Retired policeman’s painful and costly search for kidney transplant

Kenya: His five month-stay in India since September last year has been tough especially after failing to receive the expected kidney treatment following a diagnosis of prostate cancer. Former Assistant Administration Police Commandant, Eastern Province, James Meme, 61, and his wife Catherine narrate to The Standard on Saturday their medical sojourn in India.

Mr Meme was first featured in The Standard on Saturday in August last year as one of 8,000 Kenyans whose lives fully depend on dialysis due to chronic kidney failure necessitating a kidney transplant locally or in other countries with India being a preferred destination. He was diagnosed with kidney failure in April last year at KNH and had been undergoing dialysis twice weekly.