Police have arrested a man in Kayole Phase 1 for allegedly running an unregistered clinic and lacking professional qualifications to offer medical services.
In a statement on Friday, Directorate of Criminal Investigation boss Mohamed Amin said the arrest by a team of detectives and officers from the Pharmacy & Poisons Board followed a complaint from an affected patient.
He said the complainant, a 31-year-old male, said that between March 1 and March 27, 2024, the suspect charged him over Sh60,000 for sample tests allegedly at laboratories in some of the country's renowned medical facilities before "diagnosing" him with a liver disorder.
He said the victim said that despite being given a prescription, the patient's condition deteriorated forcing him to seek the opinion of another specialist at a city hospital.
“No lab test ran at the hospital pointed to any liver issues. Detectives uncovered that the medical reports issued to the patient by the quack purporting to be lab results were all fake and falsified,” Amin said.
“Further, the Pharmacy and Poisons Board confirmed that the suspect neither had any proof of registration as a medical officer nor held a business registration certificate,” he added.
Amin said the suspect, 45, was arrested and taken to Kamukunji Police Station by detectives where he awaits to be processed and charged in court.
The case against James Mugo alias Mugo wa Wairimu remains most prominent in the country after he was found guilty of illegally running a clinic in Kayole.
Wairimu was on October 28, 2020, slapped with Sh1.4 million fine for the offence, a failure for which he was to spend three years in jail.
He was found guilty of unlawfully operating a pharmacy business without being registered by the Pharmacy and Poisons Board.
Wairimu was also convicted of operating a medical laboratory without registration and license by the Kenya Medical Laboratory Practitioners and operating an unregistered medical clinic.
The Kenya National Union of Nurses said Wairimu did not appear in their register.
He was on November 21, 2022 slapped with another 29-year jail term after being found guilty of sedating and sexually abusing female patients at a clinic he ran in Githurai.
Wairimu was found guilty of all 10 counts of sedating a woman with the intention to rape her, operating a hospital without a license and acting like a doctor without qualifications.
He was already serving 11 years behind bars after a different court found him guilty of a similar offence in 2020.