Our Kidney transplant procedures aligned to Health Standards, Mediheal says

The hospital, which began to conduct kidney transplants in November 2018, says it has so far carried out 372 procedures in Kenya and 104 in ten other countries. 

Out of the 476 transplants, conducted from 2018 to 2025, Mediheal reports that there have been 10 patient mortalities, which affected recipients and not donors. 

“To the Mediheal’s best knowledge, there have been no complications on the transplants it conducted. There are possible complaints, as is the nature of any medical procedure,” the hospital’s Deputy Operations Manager Dancel Njoroge said in a statement. 

In response to alleged organ trafficking practices, the hospital says it complied with Section 80 of the Health Act, 2017, following ethical and medical standards in the transplants.

“All patients/recipients and the donors were taken through the necessary and requisite medical processes,” Mediheal explained. 

The facility holds that it did not interfere with the process by pairing recipients and donors, neither was it aware of any existing understanding and alignments made by the parties to donate.

“The only funds and monies Mediheal handled are charges for the medical Services, which include professional medical fees, pharmaceuticals, surgical disposables, theatre charges, ICU charges, etc,” Njoroge stated. 

According to the facility, any foreign recipients handled by their health practitioners had medical visas. 

The facility argued that its transplant procedures have been numerously reviewed, evaluated, considered without demur, by medical bodies in Kenya and beyond. 

A team probing the alleged trafficking case against the institution have been deployed to counties, and are expected to give feedback to an Independent Investigative Committee.