Retired President Moi Readmitted to Nairobi Hospital

Retired President Daniel Arap Moi was on Monday taken back to Nairobi Hospital for another medical examination. 

Moi was readmitted to Nairobi Hospital about a week after he was discharged from the same medical facility having been admitted on Sunday, October 13th.

A report by The Star indicated that the 95-year-old former politician was taken to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), where he is under life support but his Press Secretary Lee Njiru said Moi was only undergoing a routine checkup.

“It is true Mzee Moi went to Nairobi Hospital on Monday but it is a routine medical check-up. It is prudent and advisable that everybody should go for a medical check-up, so Mzee Moi went for a medical check-up,” Njiru told Daily Nation.

The Star had reported that Moi was rushed to the hospital after developing breathing complications over the weekend.

Moi will be discharged once his personal physician, Dr. David Silverstein gives him a clean bill of health, Njiru said.

“He is expected to go back home but that will be at the discretion of his personal physician; he will make the final decision.”

Last December, Moi was taken to the same facility for what doctors also termed as a routine medical examination for a few days.

In March 2018, the former president was flown to Israel and was admitted to a hospital in the city of Tel Aviv for surgery.

At the time, Njiru said Moi had an operation on his knee “which has been troubling him for some time.” The problem began in 2006 after the car he was traveling in collided with another vehicle at Rukuma area in Limuru.