Nairobi Hospital board defends management, tells President Ruto to keep off

The board of directors of the Nairobi Hospital, led by its chairman, Barclay Onyambu, together with the Management Advisory Committee, has dismissed claims by President William Ruto that the facility is being mismanaged.

The directors also said the hospital’s financial performance, which saw revenue hit KSh 12 billion for the 2024/2025 financial year, depicts a stable, operational and trusted entity.

They further dismissed five doctors who had invited the government to intervene in the affairs of the Nairobi Hospital, stating that the doctors’ engagement with government offices was unofficial.

The Nairobi Hospital Board of Directors want it's Patron, President William Ruto, to stop interfering with the management of the prime health facility.

The directors, including board chairman Barcley Onyambu and chief executive officer Felix Osano, defended themselves against claims of mismanagement, maintaining that the president, as an appointee of the board, has no powers of directing how the facility should be run.

“These serving pursuits are intended to ignore the existing governing structures and create uncertainty and advance, in our opinion, personal commercial interests… The patron is an appointee of the board and doesn’t have any official or non-official role in the board," said Onyambu.

Osano added: “Nairobi Hospital is stable… it posted a Ksh.12 billion revenue and Ksh.1.6 billion liquidity reserves… these figures I am reading represent financial growth and sustainability.”

The Directors who included the chairperson of the Management Advisory Committee, Dr.Agnes Gachoki, stating that there is a deliberate plot to interfere with the management structure of the health facility and advance personal interests.

“These are individuals who advance selective and misleading narratives externally while at the same time interfering with internal processes," stated Onyambu.

They condemned the arrests and prosecution of it's current and former directors

“We hereby condemn the blatant arrest and mistreatment of our members despite active court orders," he added.

 “The members’ register is with the company secretary and available to anyone who wants to audit. What we cannot do is publish details of members as this is against data privacy rights.”

Another director was summoned to DCI Headquarters, bringing the total number of directors interrogated so far to 10.