Days after quack doctor Mugo Wa Wairimu arrested after Flying Squad’s head of operations John Njoroge and his team stormed the clinic with Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board CEO Daniel Yumbya.
A new report shows Only 1,500 private clinics in Nairobi County have the permits to offer medical services.
The report by the County Public Health Department reveals that there are 2,315 private clinics, 800 or 34 percent of which are open and offering services to residents illegally.
Ms Jesca Omai, the Nairobi County Clinical Inspection Coordinator, made the revelations before the assembly’s Health Services committee last week.
“After a mapping programme carried out in August last year, the department found out that Nairobi has a total of 2,315 private clinics out of which only 1,500 have received inspection certificates over time and have been cleared with the department as having the necessary permits,” said Ms Omai.
The committee chaired by Roysambu Ward Representative Peter Warutere asked Ms Omai to explain why the 800 clinics have been operating since they are not licensed.
However two employees of quack doctor Mugo wa Wairimu have been released on bail. Magistrate Martha Mutuku ruled that the two be released on a bail of Sh200000 each or a bond of Sh500000 with a surety of the same amount.
The magistrate said that she did not find any compelling reasons to keep the two in police custody as the prosecution had alluded.
The two students who were employed by quack doctor Mugo wa Wairimu have been arraigned in court and remanded for operating without a valid licenses.
Their boss is however allegedly on the run after the expose that was aired by NTV’s investigative journalist Dennis Okari.
The feature highlighted the two employees assist Mugo procure illegal abortions in Nairobi’s Kayole estate where he had three clinics.
Gathiru Kamunya aged 22 is a final year medical student at Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) and had been working at the clinic as an intern, he was expected to graduate from KMTC next month.