Mediheal founder Swarup Mishra denies organ trafficking claims after damning report

Swarup Mishra, the owner of Mediheal Group of Hospitals, has dismissed claims that the facilities were involved in organ trafficking.

Speaking to the press on Tuesday, the former Kesses MP insisted that his hospital followed the law and was a trail blazer in organ transplant in the country, stating that they have performed 476 surgeries with minimal failure.

According to Mishra, although there is no law governing organ transplantation in the country, the surgeries were within the relevant guidelines that are supposed to be followed.

“Organ transplant means that one is taking money from the recipient and soliciting the donor while paying him, we were never involved in such a process, and I request that the committee should have been on a mission of fact finding, not fault finding,” he said.

Mishra insisted that all the surgeries were above board, refuting claims that foreigners came into the country to benefit from organs taken from innocent Kenyans.

“There is no foreigner who came in the country and left with a kidney of a Kenyan, all the foreigners who were operated on came with their own donors from their country,” he claimed.

“The way forward is very simple, if Mishra and Mediheal are really culprits, let them carry the cross, but if we are truly innocent, then let us get justice.”

Mishra’s lawyers Katwa Kigen and Peter Moritet read ulterior motive and predetermined conclusion from the committee on health and questioned the nature in which the probe was conducted, saying none of the patients was ever contacted.

The advocates also accused the committee of malice, relying on hearsay and innuendo in drafting the report, even as they decried failure to be presented with the report to conclusively give a response.

“We have not been supplied with the main report and we are responding to media reports but we have written to the CS Health to supply an elaborate report. The committee did not go out of the way to get input of the patients yet they supplied all materials asked for,” said Kigen.

He also dismissed reports that some of the documents required for the probe were missing.

“We dare the committee to say which data was missing because we supplied 476 affidavits times two, which means affidavits for the donors and patients. If the committee did not see it, it is as a result of lethargy. There was no contact of patients… we are amazed, puzzled,” Kigen added.

This comes after the Independent Investigative Committee on Tissue and Organ Transplant Services recommended an immediate investigation and criminal charges against Mishra.

In a damning report presented to Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale last week, the 13-member team exposed massive irregularities pointing to an international organ harvesting syndicate.

The 314-page bombshell report uncovered the details of a three-month task force investigation into an alleged international illegal kidney harvesting ring.

The data, covering 452 donors and 447 recipients across multiple institutions, revealed that 417 files originated from Mediheal Hospital in Eldoret, accounting for approximately 81% of all donors and 76% of all recipients.

The data shows that between 2018 and March 2025, Mediheal Hospital handled 417 donors and 340 recipients, with male patients making up three out of every four cases.

The residence status data shows that 44% of recipients are residents, 16% are non-Kenyan, and a notable 38.94% have an unknown status, indicating possible gaps in documentation or lack of identification documents in the patient record.