Avané Clinic
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 70/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #5 of 12 ranked clinics · last checked 18 September 2026
- Specialist-led
Summary
Combined plastic-surgery and dermatology clinic in Nairobi. Four physicians are named on the clinic's own site; one is matched in the KMPDC register with a plastic-surgery sub-specialty and one with a dermatology specialty, both under active specialist-practice licences; two others are found in the register as active general-practice doctors with no specialty on record. The operating clinic is found in the facility register under a different legal name than the consumer brand.
Google Maps listing (reference, not scored)
What the clinic's public Google Maps listing showed when we read it: the rating other people gave, the number of their reviews and the hours the clinic itself publishes there. This block is a reference only — it does not enter the score, the rank, the ceilings or the holds, and we have not checked it beyond matching the listing to this record.
| Google rating | 4.8 out of 5 · reviews: 287 |
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| Opening hours as published on the listing |
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| Open the listing on Google Maps | Google Maps |
Source: Google Maps, read 4 October 2026. The listing was matched to this record by the clinic's website address, the clinic's phone number.
Axis by axis
rubric value 1–5 · ? could not verify (no points, not a negative finding) · — not applicable: this country has no register of that class · OFF official register · SEC secondary source
| Axis | Finding (rubric anchor) | Value | Source class | Weight | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M1 | Specialist certification of the responsible physician Found, status current; the registered specialty matches what this physician advertises. KMPDC register: Dr Shaban Gathaya Saidi, general surgery specialty with plastic and reconstructive surgery sub-specialty, Specialist Practice, status ACTIVE; Dr Pranav Mahendra Pancholi, dermatology specialty, Specialist Practice, status ACTIVE (highest-scoring named physician on this profile). [kmpdc-lmp] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-09-01 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. |
SEC | 16 | 2026-09-01 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Matched by name (surname stem and given name or initial; a second identifier where the name is ambiguous). Matched by name; the register masks registration numbers. [kmpdc-lmp] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-01 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Found with a spelling discrepancy; or the location is registered under the name of the host facility at the same address (a practice inside a hospital or a centre); or the value comes from a mirror or from a directory that shows no status — the profile names the record holder verbatim. Facility register carries the clinic under a different legal name (AVANE LIMITED MEDICAL CLINIC / AVANE DERMATOLOGY CLINIC, same postal box), Status ACTIVE — name spelling and legal form differ from the consumer brand. [kmpdc-fac] |
OFF | 10 | 2026-09-01 | |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability Only a brand, without a legal form and without a responsible person. Whatever we find ourselves is shown on the profile as a fact and does not raise this cell. The clinic publishes no legal entity name or company number on its own pages (loaded 2026-09-18: https://www.avaneclinic.com/ , /about-us/ , /our-doctors/ , /contact/ , /privacy-policy-2/); the trading name only. [site] |
SEC | 8 | 2026-09-18 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers No identifiers at all. No licence, registration or certificate numbers published on the clinic's own site. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-09-01 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty One or two soft superlatives or non-absolute safety promises. Soft superlative in the site title. [site-ps] Kenya's Leading Plastic Surgery Clinic |
SEC | 12 | 2026-09-01 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Single language front. Last attempt: clinic_site, 18 September 2026 — one language front; no hreflang alternates or language links The clinic site publishes one language front; nothing to compare. |
? | ? | 5 | 2026-09-18 |
| M9 | Patient documents None. No informed-consent, risk, aftercare, revision-policy or complaint-route content found on the site. [site] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-01 |
Score ceilings
No ceiling applies. We never apply one on 'not found' alone.
Holds
No hold on this profile.
Inclusion policy
Four mechanical conditions. The first three decide whether a clinic is listed at all; the fourth decides whether it can be scored.
| Identifiable: live public surface + working in-country contact | verified yes [site] [site-ps] |
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| Provides the service itself (not an aggregator, booking site or tour packager) | verified yes [site] [site-ps] |
| In scope: the intervention is performed by a physician | verified yes [site] [site-ps] |
| Names a responsible physician | verified yes [site] [site-ps] |
Who is responsible
Named physicians and the legal entity, as published and as matched in the registers. A missing number is a statement about disclosure, not about licensing.
| Physician | Role | Register ID |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Shaban Gathaya Saidi [site-ps] [kmpdc-lmp] | Plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgeon | not published |
| Dr Pranav Mahendra Pancholi [site] [kmpdc-lmp] | Founder, lead dermatologist | not published |
| Dr Anjali Patrocina Desouza [site] [kmpdc-lmp] | Dermatologist | not published |
| Dr Paras Jagdish Rathod [site] [kmpdc-lmp] | Cosmetic dermatologist | not published |
Legal entity: could not verify
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]
What we could not verify
- M8 · Cross-locale consistency — Single language front
These cells score nothing and are not negative findings. A cell on a register that is closed to machine queries is left out of the coverage calculation; the others count against it. Each one names why it is empty; an attempt that did not complete is re-run in the next collection pass. If you can point to a public source, send it.
Contact details
| Website | https://www.avaneclinic.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +254 702 300 200 |
| Address | Argwings Kodhek Road, Nairobi, Kenya |
| City | Nairobi |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.avaneclinic.com/our-doctors/ | clinic's own site | physicians, roles, credentials, address | 18 September 2026 |
| site-ps | https://www.avaneplasticsurgerynairobi.com/ | clinic's own site | plastic surgery service line, menu, title superlative | 1 September 2026 |
| kmpdc-lmp | https://registers.kmpdc.go.ke/localPractitioners/getLicensedMedical… | official register | specialist certification, medical licence status (Saidi, Pancholi, Desouza, Rathod) | 1 September 2026 |
| kmpdc-fac | https://registers.kmpdc.go.ke/healthFacilities/getLicensedPrivateHe… | official register | facility registration (AVANE LIMITED MEDICAL CLINIC / AVANE DERMATOLOGY CLINIC) | 1 September 2026 |
| kmpdc-closed | https://registers.kmpdc.go.ke/healthFacilities/getClosedHealthFacil… | official register | no matching entry in the closed-facilities register | 1 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 18 September 2026 | sources.site.url: "https://www.avaneclinic.com/about/our-doctors/" → "https://www.avaneclinic.com/our-doctors/" (The cited path now answers 404; the same page is served at /our-doctors/ (checked 2026-09-18).) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M5: null → 2 (Re-run of the v1.0 retry cell: BRS/eCitizen re-probed and still login-gated (registry-map closedAttempt 2026-09-18), no open secondary company source loadable; scored from what the clinic itself publishes (v1.2 pass 1).) |
| 1 September 2026 | M9 scored from the clinic site (top-up pass). |
| 1 September 2026 | Initial collection. |
Correction or right of reply
Corrections are applied with a source link and logged publicly. A clinic statement without a source is published next to the data; the score does not change.