Dr. Swarup Mishra, the founding father of Mediheal Group of Hospitals, has firmly denied allegations that Kenyan kidneys had been trafficked in a foreign country. He maintained that every one overseas sufferers who underwent transplants at Mediheal arrived in Kenya with their very own donors.
“No Kenyan organ has ever been exported, none in any respect,” Dr. Mishra emphasised. “Every overseas transplant affected person got here with a donor they knew beforehand.”
He additionally distanced the hospital from any unethical practices surrounding organ donation. “Mediheal doesn’t participate in choosing donors, nor can we have interaction in transactions, exert stress, supply bribes, or commercialize the method in any approach,” he mentioned. “We don’t even counsel potential donors to sufferers.”
Dr. Mishra issued the assertion in response to a scathing authorities taskforce report, which examined 476 kidney transplants carried out at Mediheal between 2018 and 2024. The hospital got here underneath fireplace within the report for breaking transplant legal guidelines and really helpful that the authorities prosecute Dr. Mishra and three different senior docs.
Dr. Mishra staunchly defended the integrity of Mediheal’s transplant procedures, asserting that every one the surgical procedures had been in accordance with the legislation and had been authorised by the Ministry of Health.
“Eligible candidates for renal transplant embrace sufferers referred by kin or mates, and in-house kidney sufferers from our hospital,” he clarified. “A whole workup is carried out to substantiate if a affected person is a real candidate, as a result of some instances could be reversible dialysis.”
He went on to clarify that every one sufferers should present their very own donors, who then endure a complete medical screening course of alongside the transplant recipients.
“Once introduced by the affected person, donors endure a complete workup to make sure compatibility,” Dr. Mishra defined. “This contains cross-matching, HLA typing, and gene mapping, that are important to attenuate or eradicate post-transplant rejection.”
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To again Mediheal’s observe file, Dr. Mishra shared information displaying that out of the 476 kidney transplants carried out on the hospital, solely 20 had been rejected, considerably decrease than the worldwide common rejection fee of 20 %.
“Of these 20 rejections, seven had been acute and 13 had been continual,” he mentioned. “We efficiently rescued eight of these instances, so ultimately, solely 12 transplants failed. Importantly, we haven’t misplaced a single donor, all donors are alive and nicely.”
Dr. Mishra additionally addressed considerations about transplant-related deaths.
“Patient mortality for kidney transplants at our facility is 8 out of 476 instances,” he famous. “We outline transplant-related mortality as dying occurring inside one month of surgical procedure. Deaths occurring after two, three, or ten years are pure and unrelated to the transplant.”
Dr. Mishra dismissed the taskforce report as malicious and baseless, accusing it of damaging the hospital’s fame with out presenting credible proof.
“This report is dangerous to the integrity of our hospital,” he mentioned. “The claims are fully unfounded and never supported by any credible proof.”
He underscored the openness and excessive moral requirements of Mediheal. “We don’t have anything to cover.”
Dr. Mishra additionally revealed that the hospital had issued a authorized discover to German broadcaster Deutsche Welle over what he described as false claims in a documentary that sparked the taskforce investigation.
“We will cooperate with all related authorities,” he acknowledged. “And if any wrongdoing is discovered, we’re able to face the implications however we reject the lies and defamation.”
