RADIO PRESENTER JACOB ‘GHOST’ MULEE TALKS BEING DIAGNOSED WITH SEVERE SLEEP APNEA

Radio presenter Jacob ‘Ghost’ Mulee has opened up on his trip to India alongside his brother who was suffering from kidney complications. 

Speaking during a recent interview, the radio presenter detailed his trip to the Asian country, further revealing that his brother’s doctor said the kidney donation was not a must. 

“We were in Nairobi with my brother and he was sick. Hospitals in Nairobi recommended a kidney transplant, and I told my brother I would donate my kidney. But because he had been to India, he did not want the transplant to be done in Kenya. We got to India and my brother was really sick. Upon arrival to the hospital the doctor came in and my brother introduced me as the donor. However, the doctor said I didn’t have to donate the kidney and he would save my brother’s kidneys,” said Mulee. 

Now that he was not required to do the donation, Mulee decided to do medical checkups,

“I do medical checkups every year and I’ve always had a dream to go to India and do a medical checkup. I went to the hospital and everything was fine until I got to the ENT doctor. He told me ‘I think you have a problem but we need to confirm’. All the other tests were fine apart from the throat,” he said. 

Before leaving India for Kenya, Mulee’s doctor called and informed him that they were supposed to do a sleep study to establish what was wrong with his throat. “I told my brother because my job was demanding, I had to leave and he would stay with his wife. He told me there was no problem and I can leave. I was supposed to leave on Sunday, but the ENT doctor insisted I should to do a sleep study to establish what was wrong with my throat,” he added.

The procedure was done and Mulee was diagnosed with sleep apnea and a surgery was recommended to save his life. “So the sleep study, gadgets are placed allover your face and there is someone monitoring you and after some time, the results were taken to the doctor.

The doctor called me and told me ‘thank God you are alive, you have a severe apnea sleep’. He then told me we had to do a robotic surgery, after a quick evaluation he told me the surgery would cost Sh600,000. I reached out to my insurance company but they did not respond. So I had to look for other means,” Mulee recalled. 

He added; “Due to lack of beds in India, my doctor made plans to get me a bed and have a successful surgery after realising I was a national coach. He said I would check into the hospital, go in for surgery and released on the second day to recover from the hotel.“

Obstructive sleep apnea is a medical condition which causes a person’s airway to close multiple times per hour during sleep, causes daytime sleepiness and can kill people with the condition.