Nairobi West Hospital conducts first Bone Marrow Transplant in Kenya

According to Prof. Andrew Kanyi, the hospital's Chief Medical Officer, the procedure was successfully performed on a patient.

"Nairobi West is the first ever institution to start bone marrow transplant," Dr Kanyi told the media on Tuesday. 

"We have successfully done a procedure and the patient is recuperating well." 

Dr. Kanyi revealed that the patient who underwent the operation is recovering and will be discharged in one to two weeks.

He also stated that the introduction of the treatment relieves Kenyans of the burden of traveling abroad for treatment, which most have been doing to India, Egypt, or even the United Kingdom.

The hospital's Bone Marrow Transplant department aims to provide comprehensive, integrated, and patient-centered services for the diagnosis and management of all types of blood disorders in adults and children, including blood cancers.

BMT is a special therapy that has been used successfully to treat diseases such as blood cancer (leukemia), lymphomas, aplastic anaemia, immune deficiency disorders, and some solid tumor cancers since 1963.