By Nelson Wachira
The social media campaign that has been going on claiming that the Nairobi Hospital is collapsing are malicious, untrue and false. I and my team of investigative bloggers and journalists have been coducting under cover investigations just to find out what really is happening in one of Africa’s best hospital facilites. But before we give you a detailed blow by blow story of who is behind these negative campaign, our spies have found out the following things about the Nairobi hospital:
The Nairobi Hospital Performance Rate Card
- The hospital’s finance base is sound and it has never taken loans. For all the projects being done, the hospital uses its own funds generated internally. For instance, in May 2024 alone, revenue hit almost Kshs 1.4 billion shillings. – FACT!
- Since January 2024, the bed occupancy is on average 80%. No hospital in Nairobi has bitten this record. In fact in March 2024, the bed occupancy hit 100% something that had never been achieved in many years. External governance audits are saying very positive things about the quality of patient care and welfare at the hospital. – FACT!
- All consultant doctors for the Hospital had been paid their dues worth Kshs 2.3 billion for up to end of May 2024. Since Mr Nyamungo took over as CEO in 2021, payments to ASA doctors has been increasing as follows: 2021 (kshs 1.3 billion); 2022 (Kshs 1.6 billion); 2023 (1.7 billion); 2024 (over Kshs 700 million has already been paid by end of May). Any students of statistics will tell you that the Hospital has been performing very well under Nyamongo and Dr Bichange’s leadership. – FACT!
- Nairobi Hospital is the only hospital in Kenya that pays their doctors twice a month. – FACT!
- Staff salaries at Nairobi Hospital get paid by 24thof every month. Management has also recently introduced a low-interest car loan and mortgage facility for staff members. The staff morale is also high and they are happy, motivated and going about their duties and obligations despite the distractions on social media. – FACT!
- Becouse of this track record, the Nairobi Hospital has won two major global excellence awards. First is a global CSR award it won last October in Lisbon Portugal organised by the international Hospital Federation (IHF) and the other is the Outstanding Leadership Award won in Brussels Belgium this year in March by the European Society for Quality Research. This are international excellence awards which no African hospital has won in history.
From this facts, and there are many more, one question lingers in the mind of anyone who has the welfare of our patients at heart: IS THE NAIROBI HOSPITAL A HOSPITAL THAT IS COLLAPSING WITH ALL THIS SUCCESSES? The answer is a BIG NO. Ironically, the people behind this negative smeer campaign are benefittng from this success indicators we have just listed above.
Who is behind the negative campaign against the Nairobi Hospital?
When Chinua son of Achebe from Nigeria wrote Things Fall Apart in 1960, he says in the book that a toad does not jump in broad daylight for no reason. As an undercover investigative journalist with good record and clendetials for that matter, today I want to name for you the toad, and also go ahead and tell you why this toad is jumping in daylight instead of enjoying his retirement. In the last several months, you have seen a few blogs about the Nairobi hospital and alleged malpractices in this well known hospital in East and Central Africa. My team and I decided to go secretly to just find out what is happening there and all our queries revolved around one name: Dr Irungu Ndirangu who is the immediate former chairman of the board of directors. He is the one who has recruited and bankrolled some board members and senior staff to sabotange the current management lead by mr james Nyamungo who is the CEO and Dr Christopher Bichange who is the chairman of the Board of directors.
by the name Miseda as chief operating officer (COO) whose main role in the last 6 months is to coordinate and write very negative things in blogs about the hospital so that it appears that it is collapsing. If the Nairobi Hospital is doing badly, why is Miseda and Dr Ilungu Ndirangu very desperate to lead it? If a woman is ugly, sick and stinking, why fight to have her in bed? Miseda was a mere accounts clerk with Triple O who goes round saying he is an advocate of the high court of Kenya. He is not. He only has a law degree and a quick glace at his executive profile, he does not come near being a member of the senior management team of the hospital leave alone being a COO. But because of his past sins of commission (he is an excited villager who blindly executes tasks without thinking through) and omission (because his friends and agemates call him an educated fool), Dr Irungu illegally hired him as COO in gross violation of the Hospital’s human resource policy on recruitment. The post is not on the hospital’s organizational structure but Irungu bulldosed and hired miseda so that he can take over from Nyamongo who Irungu had planned to kick out by December 2023. Wait a minute, does it make sence to have the position of Chief Operations Officer when the Hospital has a director of Operations? How different were their roles? Besides that, Dr Irungu had no idea that he was dealing with a clueless dude in Miseda who will go to a pub in Lavington during evenings and brag that it was just a matter of time before he was announced as the new CEO of the Nairobi Hospital. Well, he has waited and waited until his wife is now reportedly tired of the Dubai trip he promised her when the ‘major announcement’ was going to come from his friend irungu. Remember the hynena that kept following a person thinking that the hand was going to fall off so that the hyena can have a meal? That is Miseda for you. We now have reliable information that Miseda bribed Dr Irungu with Kshs 7 million which he borrowed from his wife who is a major contractor in Homa Bay, Migori and Kisumu counties where she has been paid severally for non-existent projects and now auditors have exposed them. In addition to the 7 million bribe to Dr Irungu for the COO job, Miseda was to add another Kshs 13 million upon being appointed CEO Nairobi hospital. In fact Miseda was so sure of irungu’s promises that some time this year, he illegally received Kisumu governor Anyang Nyongo and took him to his office instead of the CEO’s office. He told the good prof, who was coming to grace a cancer awareness event in Nairobi hospital, that he was the acting CEO of this great facility. When finally, the real CEO Nyamongo appeared at the event, Miseda went to the toilet and later vanished from the function. Miseda did not stop there. With firm support from Dr Irungu, he formed a sprinter group of the hospital’s senior management team to fight Nyamongo. Little did he know that from within his sprinter group, Nyamongo used to get regular updates from a senior lady who pretended to play along the doomed Miseda highway. In Miseda’s faction of senior managers were Dr Margaret Sirima, principal school of nursing, Mary kamau, director nursing services, Shammah Kitome, Davis Musau and Audrey Onsomu. Miseda and this team used to hold night meetings in Panafric hotel plotting how to take over the reigns of the hospital leadership. Miseda even has an unpaid bill of Kshs 66,000 at Panafric after lying that he was holding top level hospital meetings. As a disguise from Dr Irungu, Dr Sirima was fronted at some point as the acting CEO when Nyamongo was to be sent away so that Miseda can be confirmed after hurried interviews were to be arranged by Irungu. The nurses at the Hospital will tell you that Dr Sirima is a tribal chauvinist, toxic and discriminates people a lot. She is famous for relentlessly fighting the Kenya Registered Community Health Nurses (KRCHN) saying they are not qualified to be recognized by the nursing council of Kenya yet the National Nurses association of Kenya has confirmed that KRCHN nurses possess broad skills that enable them to work in hospital and community settings making them highly adaptable to various healthcare environments such as the Nairobi hospital. In fact the nursing association confirms that the Kenya Registered nurses (KRN) are only specialised in providing care within hospital settings. So nurses are wondering why is Dr sirima fighting the KRCHN nurses emplyed at nairobi Hospital?
wars? Did he even fight any real war in the military? For heavens sake, can he let the young Kenyans who have been hired to serve their country in peace? All those people who met at a hotel in Nairobi hospital in a fake board meeting should be ashamed of themleves. They are the last people to cast stones that the recruitment process that gave the hospital brilliant young and suave professionals who will carry the vision of the institution forward.
In all fairness, why would 80-year-olds introduce fitina or muchene in a rectrruitment process that benefits young professionals to assist the hospital grow? If Dr irungu is convinced that the law was not followed in this recruitment (as if he followed it when he hired Miseda and his girl friend Mary), let him go to court. Otherwise, just like his children are working out there to eke out a living, he and his team of octogenarians who met at daily caffe should let other people’s children also work to serve this county in peace instead of treating this country with tired tribal lines. If they don’t do this, then their lives will be made deliberately difficult in this town. Just like his governor said recently in Nyeri, kama mbaya mbaya! Why is DR Irungu spreading scandalous rumors that kisiis have taken over the nairobi Hospital? In any case what is wrong if they do because the kisiis who have been hired are recruited on merit where the right policies are followed! The ones on the Board are all elected and nobody takes themsleves to the board! In any case, did Irungu complain when kikuyus dominated the hospital for many years? Did his friend Dr JA Aluoch complain when luos dominated the hospital for many years and making massive losses? Do these Wazees think non-Kikuyus and non-luos are children of a lesser God in this country? Even as dr Irungu is telling everyone he meets in clubs that Kisiis have taken over the hospital, he is the one who hired mr Nyamongo when he was board chairman. But as these rubbish is being spread, here are the real facts that we have dug out. In Nairobi hospital staff currently, Kikuyus are 32%, followed by Luos who are 15% followed by Luhyas who are 13%. This means that 3 communities comprise of over 60% of all staff in Nairobi hospital. Where are kisiis in these statistics? If you want to verify, please call the HR department!
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Let Dr Ilungu Ndirangu and his cronies know that the process of procurement that is now underway for the ICT project will be transparent and above board. The information our bird gave us is that there are plans to even invite ASA members (consultant doctors) and Board of Directors for the hospital to attend the practical demonstrations from the firms that are bidding for the job, something that Irungu could not do when he forced his briefcase company Dynamic Nav. We pray that he lives long to see how good governance is practiced. By now Dr Irungu should know that he is not as smart as he thinks. If he was, he will still be chairman. But the ground shifted a long time ago and the only saying he needs to look at every morning is this one: ‘fools carry themselves as brains encounter brains!’
In our next episode of this drama at Nairobi hospital, we will give you another reason why Dr Irungu is jumping in broad daylight like the proverbial toad. This is the security gadgets tender where he was pushing his company by the name Opticom and things have backfired on him badly even after collecting a fat kick back from Opticom. Why would an 80-year-old medic who has had a failrly good career as an ENT specialist start going round collecting kick backs from the hospital suppliers? How does one explain Dr Irungu’s appettitte for money even at his age? Why is he embarassing his own children who are now grown up professionals in the medical field? Does he know that his new friend Herman Manyora is an extotionist waiting to go to the bloggers with damaging information about Dr Irungu and his friend Dr JA Aluoch?
The answer to this questions is the same. Dr Irungu is greedy and a glutton. He thinks that all the money in this world belongs to him and Kikuyus. So this is the reason why he doesn’t want policies to be in place so that he can force his way and award business to his cronies who then give him kickbacks. Over the last year, the Board has passed several policies against Dr Irungu’s wishes so that the governance proceses can be improved since the Hospital is a world class institution. Some of the policies in place including Human Resources Policy (which used to recently hire the ICT Director, Finance Director and the HR Director); Procedures Manual, Financial Management Policies, Credit Policy, Procurement/Supply Chain Policy (which Dr Irungu suspended when he was chairman to make way for his briefcase company Dynamc Nav in the now controversial ICT project), Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Policy, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Policy, Communication Policy and Social Media Policy, Digital Communication Policy, Research Policy and Business Continuity Policy. Dr Irungu is therefore an embarassment to his medical profession and the military where he served because this two institutions are known for ethical conduct and discipline. Irungu spends his time bribing board directors and senior staff in the Hospital so that he can have his way but it is not working. He has no idea that God and forces of good took charge at the hospital a long time ago because of the simple reason that the doctors, nurses and the support staff at nairobi Hospital are doing a commendable job saving lives when Dr Irungu is busy planning corruption to bring down an institution that Kenyans and Africans are so proud of. Ashindwe! At 80 years, why can’t he retire honourably? Does he know that he and his team has already lost the September elections? Instead of retreating to plan smart – which is what a good soldier does – he has decided to start a negative campaign against the hospital.
Dr Irungu should not think that if he is not the chairman, the hospital will not succeed. It will succeed in Jesus Christ’s mighty name. Let him focus on the demonic acts at his freemasons. In fact he is spoiling the good name of some freemasons that we know of in this city. It is obvious that the reason he has hired goons like Herman Manyora (the only Kenyan who lies on TV that he is a professor yet he doesn’t even have a PhD degree; He should be sued for obtaining money by false pretence. We are gathering details of the several consultancies he has done masquerading as ‘Prof’ Manyora) and Ludmilla Shitakha (the Russian spy who has been operating under cover here for a long time. A parrot who talks too much, she is now busy telling the Russian government how the Kenya Kwanza government is bad. Little wonder that it is the Russians who are funding elements known to support the ongoing Gen-Z rebellion against the government of William Ruto. We are blowing her cover very very soon).
Stay here for more juicy stuff about Dr Irungu’s corrupt activities in Nairobi Hospital over the last 3 years. Several hospital suppliers and service providers have given us shocking details that will make the current Gen-Z protests look like child plays.
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