Forty-one buildings illegally piercing Wilson Airport’s protected airspace. A regulator whose officers were threatened at gunpoint. A city planning chief now facing criminal charges. And a government so captured by developer interests that it would rather reroute aircraft over a national park than flatten a single illegal floor. This is not an aviation story. It is a corruption story. And the crash it is building towards will be Kenya’s fault.
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.
The Nairobi West Hospital unveiled a game-changing radiotherapy machine that can treat up to 100 patients a day. The Nairobi West Hospital’s Halcyon-system, is an entirely new machine for cancer treatment and the only one in Kenya. It is not only designed to expand the availability of high-quality cancer care globally, but to significantly cut […]
The Nairobi West Hospital has today unveiled a 24-hour customized helipad to bolster medical emergency services that target a growing local and international demand. The facility, a first of its kind Kenya, will boost the hospital’s ability to respond to medical emergencies by facilitating air evacuations in the country and across the East Africa region. […]
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