Upper Hill Medical Centre
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 58/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #12 of 12 ranked clinics · last checked 18 September 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Specialist medical centre in Upper Hill, Nairobi, whose dermatology department names two consultant dermatologists and lists laser treatments and dermal fillers among its services. The first-named physician is found in the KMPDC register with a dermatology specialty under a general-practice licence type, and the centre is found in the private-facility register.
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 is adjacent to what is advertised — a closed list: plastic and reconstructive surgery, dermatology, maxillofacial surgery, facial ENT, oculoplastic ophthalmology, general surgery, aesthetic or cosmetic medicine where it is a recognised specialty. KMPDC register row 'Dr JOHN MUITHE MAIMBA', Specialty 'DERMATOLOGY', Status 'ACTIVE', but License Type 'General Practice' rather than 'Specialist Practice' (registry-map m1Rule). The second named dermatologist is published by initials only and was not scored. [kmpdc-lmp] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-09-18 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. The dermatology department page names its physicians with their roles, tied to the centre's address. [site] |
SEC | 16 | 2026-09-18 | |
| 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 in the same register, Status ACTIVE; the public table masks registration numbers. [kmpdc-lmp] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-18 | |
| 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 row 'UPPER HILL MEDICAL CENTER', P.O. box 10619 00100 NAIROBI, HOSPITAL LEVEL 4, NAIROBI, Status 'ACTIVE' — the register spells Center, the centre spells Centre. [kmpdc-fac] |
OFF | 10 | 2026-09-18 | |
| 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 centre publishes no legal entity name or company number on its own pages (loaded 2026-09-18: home, /about/, /contact/, /departments/dermatology/ and two further department pages); 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 centre's own pages. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-09-18 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty Systematic superlatives; systematic safety promises without an absolute; absolutes about the past (success rates, “no infection since …”, satisfaction figures, “we guarantee your satisfaction”); comparisons with surgery. Lexicon scan of the centre's own text: superlatives without an issuer recur on the home page and the About page; no guarantee and no outcome promise. [site] Eastern Africa’s largest specialist medical centre |
SEC | 12 | 2026-09-18 | |
| 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. Patient-document scan (home, /about/, /contact/, /departments/dermatology/ and two further department pages): none of the five classes (consent, risks, aftercare, revision policy, complaint route) is published. [site] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-18 |
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] |
|---|---|
| Provides the service itself (not an aggregator, booking site or tour packager) | verified yes [site] |
| In scope: the intervention is performed by a physician | verified yes [site] |
| Names a responsible physician | verified yes [site] |
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 John Muithe Maimba [site] [kmpdc-lmp] | Dermatologist, dermatology department | not published |
| Dr S. S. Bansil [site] | Dermatologist and virologist, dermatology department | not published |
Legal entity: could not verify
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: aesthetic in general clinic (focus adjustment -2) [site]
- Rhinoplasty: could not verify
- Breast surgery: could not verify
- Liposuction & body contouring: could not verify
- Hair transplant: could not verify
- Injectables: verified yes →
- Medical weight loss: could not verify
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://uhmc.co.ke/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +254 20 2721583 |
| Address | 10 Ralph Bunche Road, Argwings Kodhek and Ralph Bunche Road junction, Nairobi |
| City | Nairobi |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://uhmc.co.ke/departments/dermatology/ | clinic's own site | dermatology department, named physicians, service list including laser treatments and dermal fillers, address | 18 September 2026 |
| kmpdc-lmp | https://registers.kmpdc.go.ke/localPractitioners/getLicensedMedical… | official register | GET https://registers.kmpdc.go.ke/localPractitioners/getLicensedMedicalPractitioners/ — local match on MAIMBA and on BANSIL: specialist certification and licence status | 18 September 2026 |
| kmpdc-fac | https://registers.kmpdc.go.ke/healthFacilities/getLicensedPrivateHe… | official register | GET https://registers.kmpdc.go.ke/healthFacilities/getLicensedPrivateHealthFacilities/ — local match on UPPER HILL: facility registration (UPPER HILL MEDICAL CENTER) | 18 September 2026 |
| kmpdc-closed | https://registers.kmpdc.go.ke/healthFacilities/getClosedHealthFacil… | official register | GET https://registers.kmpdc.go.ke/healthFacilities/getClosedHealthFacilities/ — local match on UPPER HILL MEDICAL: no matching entry in the closed-facilities register | 18 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 18 September 2026 | Initial collection (v1.2 pass 1). |
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.