I. THE HOSPITAL ON GANDHI AVENUE Nairobi West Hospital sits on Gandhi Avenue in the Nairobi South district, a sprawling 400-bed private tertiary facility that was, in another era, genuinely pioneering. When Dr. Umesh Saini migrated from Rajasthan to Kenya in the 1980s and established what would become the country’s first significant private hospital, it […]
NMC Fertility (K) Limited, trading as Fertility Point, faces two active High Court cases alleging genetic catastrophe in its Nairobi laboratories, a whistleblower allegation of a patient death covered up with the alleged assistance of DCI officers, a labour dispute over the dismissal of its own IVF specialist, and the long shadow of its parent company’s multi-billion-dollar global fraud implosion. How a clinic that sells hope became a factory of courtroom nightmares and an alleged mortuary.
Workers robbed of their own deductions, locum staff trapped on illegal shifts, drug shortages left patients stranded — and on May 25, the dam broke. A forensic investigation into how Africare’s LifeCare Hospital became Kenya’s most dangerous workplace in healthcare.
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