10 February 2022

Former prime minister Raila Odinga is in India where he was received like a top dignitary.

The politician is on daddy duty in India where he has taken his daughter Rosemary Odinga for a medical check-up.

Rosemary suffered from recurrent eyesight after a mini-stroke, she is in the country for a follow-up procedure.

Raila, Rosemary and Winnie landed in Kochi, India on Monday 7, 2022 where they were received by a delegation that gave them a full-on five-star treatment.

She will be treated under the Ayurveda system which is a traditional system that seeks to preserve health and wellness by balancing the body and the spirit.

Rosemary lost her eyesight almost fully due to the illness in 2017. The family took her to South Africa first and then to Israel and China before finally finding the treatment they wanted at Sreedhareeyam Ayurvedic Eye Hospital and Research centre in Koothattukulam, 46 km from Kochi.

"During 2019-20, HE Odinga was seen saying in Kenyan TV channels that he was extremely relieved as they found a treatment for his daughter’s blindness in 2020. The latest private visit is a follow-up check-up. The eye treatment centre has been practising ayurvedic eye care traditionally for nearly 300 years now," read a release sent to India's media houses from the research centre.

Sreedhareeyam set up a modernised ayurvedic eye care hospital in Koothattukulam around 25 years ago with state-of-the-art facilities for diagnosing and other ancillary services while sticking to traditional ayurvedic methods for treating even advanced and complicated eye ailments.

Check out photos of their arrival.