NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 1 – Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale has threatened to maneuver for the revocation former Kesses MP Swarup Mishra citizenship and have him deported to India over his alleged involvement in a world organ trafficking syndicate.
Speaking on the nationwide finals of Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) sporting event in Uasin Gishu on Friday, Duale accused Mishra of working with impunity and intimidating authorities regardless of an inquiry linking him to a significant kidney transplant scandal.
He was alluding to an investigation that discovered Mediheal Group of Hospitals, based by Mishra, culpable of organ harvesting.
“You cannot come to our country 20 years ago with a bag, you make money, you sell our organs, you become a Member of Parliament, you develop a culture of impunity, you hire lawyers, and when you’re pursued you threaten us,” Duale charged.
“If it means revoking that citizenship — because your citizenship is not by birth — we will revoke it, close your hospital, and deport you.”
Duale’s remarks come forward of Parliament’s anticipated adoption of a damning report by a government-appointed taskforce on tissue and organ transplant companies, which requires the investigation and prosecution of Mishra and three different senior medical doctors.
The 13-member Inter-Agency Committee on Transplant and Organ Trafficking, in its last report offered to Duale on July 22, uncovered widespread irregularities suggesting the existence of a transnational organ commerce community.
Irregular organ transplants
The three-month probe reviewed 452 donor and 447 recipient recordsdata, with 417 of the donor data linked to Mediheal Hospital in Eldoret — representing 81 per cent of all donors and 76 per cent of recipients within the report.
The committee particularly named Mishra alongside medical doctors Murthy, Sananda Bag, and Vijay Kumar as people who face investigation and proscetion for facilitating or taking part in illicit kidney transplants.
It additionally highlighted regulatory lapses and alleged complicity by oversight authorities, which allowed the unlawful commerce to flourish.
Mishra, nonetheless, denied the allegations on July 29, insisting that Mediheal operated inside present pointers.
“Organ trafficking means taking money from the recipient and soliciting and paying the donor — we [were] never involved in such a process. The committee should have been on a mission of fact-finding, not fault-finding,” he mentioned.
