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Nyeri: West residents duped by quark medics impersonating Afya Bora Hospital

Feb 22, 2023
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Residents of Kieni West, Nyeri County found themselves at a ‘crossroads’ after the hope they had of getting cured turned fake.
According to the residents, they had received adverts inviting them to a free medical camp at Bellevue Church which they did only to be told that they were dealing with people who were impersonating the owner of the said hospital for their personal gains.


“We were invited here on Sunday during our church services and at the Chief’s office that there will be professionals here to treat us. I have Arthritis and I feel pain in my spinal code too I have hope that they will treat and heal me,” Mwangi explained to Taarifa News


“I have been sitting here since morning and I even had to go back and take breakfast before I came back. We were told the medical camp will be free and I had gone to the County Hospital to seek treatment for my leg and never got the help that is why I came when I heard they will be here,” another resident stated.


Taarifa News sorted out an investigative piece to identify these people who claimed to have been authorized by Dr. Wachira Gioko and why they were doing it behind his back in several Counties in the Central region.

Speaking to the media doctor Wachira who is the CEO and Founder of Afya Bora Hospital in Mwea, Kirinyaga County people had sent complaints to him that he had authorized some people to carry out medical camps duping people in his name.
He stated that the two identified as Mary and Hillary Murage were conducting medical services in the name of his facility while he never entrusted them with such.


Wachira stated that they had been receiving reports of people doing free medical camps in the name of Afya Bora Hospital and had been in search of them for a long time.


“We got reports from last year that there were people using the name of our hospital in vain. Last month in conjunction with the director of Medical services Meru County we camped there for four days looking for the people who were using our name in vain. When they got information that we were there, they fled to an unknown destination,” he stated.


“A friend called me on Sunday and told me that the same people were in Kieni West and I informed the Police and the County Director of Medical Services who helped us identify where they were and got hold of them,” he added.

The doctor explained that the people who are his acquaintances have been duping the patients without giving them treatment and lying that it is for free yet they pay hence destroying the hospital’s relationship with its clients.


We sought out to identify the accused and find out who had authorized them.


The two suspects whom we found, had put out fliers in the local language calling them at the said church for a free medical check-up and treatment.


Hillary Wachira, a trained Clinical officer as per his explanation to Taarifa News, and his Counterpart known by one name as Mary a graduate of Health records both at Muranga Kenya Medical Training Colleges (KMTC) had no authorization from the CEO of the Hospital nor the local authorities to conduct the camp yet they were out there doing it.


They stated that they were working on a commission for the hospital where they assess the situations of patients and refer them to the Hospital where they are treated.


Doctor Wachira refuted the claims saying he never pays them and he is in no way in connection with them.


It was established that there was some communications between Wachira and Mary though it showed that she was communicating to show she had referred patients to Doctor’s Hospital.


“I have been called to this place that there are quark doctors carrying out a camp in the area. I never got information over the same and I am wondering who authorized the same because in case of such, local authorities need to be informed,” a senior officer in Kieni West explained .

Hillary and His counterpart Mary During the arrest. Image/Handout


Wachira has threatened to sue the perpetrators for tainting his name and using the name of his hospital for personal gains.


They will have to face the law. They have been camping in various parts giving the patients diclofenac in the name of free treatment.

Painkillers given to the patients during the Camp by Hillary and Mary. PHOTO/Antynet Ford.


Could the two be liaising with an insider in the said hospital to dupe patients? This is a question that will be soon unveiled by Taarifa News.


But what are the procedures for conducting a medical camp and also identifying qualified medical personnel?
There are different organizations that do it all over the country. Who authorizes them and what do they do? Do they charge the patients or is it done for free

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