05/25/2026
We are live.
J.P. Muia Health System — Africa’s first AI-smart hospital — now has a home on LinkedIn.
Named after Joseph and Peninnah Muia — the founder’s parents. A Bishop whose faith built a community. A mother whose illness revealed what that community was missing. Their son made a promise: no family in this region would ever have to make the five-hour journey to Nairobi that she endured. J.P. Muia Health System is that promise being built — at Konza Technopolis, Kenya.
The numbers that keep us up at night:
• 39% of all deaths in Kenya are from non-communicable diseases
• 2.5 interventional neuro specialists for 55 million people
• Fewer than 10 world-class interventional cardiologists
• 13 catheterization laboratories for the entire nation-Not at full capacity
• 2 neuronavigation systems in the country — both non-functional for 2+ years
• 56% hypertension prevalence in some counties — majority undiagnosed
• Heart failure mortality at 34% — double the global average
• $3 billion leaving Kenya every year in medical tourism
• 113 clinical trials conducted in Kenya’s entire history
• Zero system-integrated, AI-native hospitals on the African continent
Until now.
Medtronic partnership signed. Feasibility study underway. Columbia. Johns Hopkins. Harvard. DFC and IFC engaged. A nine-member fundraising committee with Goldman Sachs and BlackRock at the table.
We are not building a hospital. We are building a system. Five levels of care — from village to tertiary center — connected by AI-driven diagnostics, integrated digital records, and structured follow-up that ensures no patient is ever lost.
And the system starts here.
Follow us. The road to first patient has begun.
www.jpmuiahealthsystem.org
To provide the nation’s most comprehensive, highest quality, equitable, and accessible care, and patient-centered services to the rural Ukambani region, nationally, and internationally.
