American priest builds new hospital next to one he lost to Assumption Sisters

Dr Wiliam Charles Fryda, a missionary at St Joseph's Hospital in Gilgil, Nakuru County. [Harun Wathari, Standard]

After losing a long court battle for the control of a Sh3 billion hospital, one would have expected William Charles Fryda, an American priest, to give up.

For seven years Fr Fryda and the Assumption Sisters of Nairobi tussled over the ownership of St Mary’s Mission Hospital in Gilgil, Nakuru County and Lang’ata in Nairobi.