The Kenyatta National Hospital has issued a statement explaining the circumstances that led to a transplanted kidney being removed from a patient at the facility after said patient filed a police report.

This comes just a day after the patient, a woman who had received a kidney from her brother, recorded a statement at the Capitol Hill Police Station in Nairobi.

The patient and her family were seeking answers from the Level 6 hospital after the alleged transplant failed under mysterious circumstances.  Now, KNH has outlined the circumstances that led to the kidney failure, from the patient being diagnosed with kidney failure in 2022, to the kidney transplant and the subsequent removal in February 2025.

An undated picture of the emergency entrance at the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH).