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Dr. Willis Okumu during an interview on Spice FM on April 22, 2025. [Courtesy]
Willis Okumu, the researcher at the center of a recent Deutsche Welle (DW) expose on kidney trafficking, has called for a review of the Kenya Health Act of 2017, to seal loopholes exploited by a suspected syndicate linked to illegal organ donations.
Okumu, a senior researcher at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), on Tuesday said some provisions of the Act regulating organ donations are ambiguous and open to abuse by criminal networks.
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