Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore has said that he was misdiagnosed with Vitamin D deficiency instead of cancer.
During an interview on Citizen TV, Collymore revealed that he felt sick last year October but doctors could not figure what he was ailing from.
"I use to get tired and have high temperatures from time to time. It got so bad that I could not make it to company events," he said. He further noted that the high temperatures would sometimes last for 24 hours.
Collymore who just returned in the country after undergoing treatment abroad said that he notified his wife who thought it was malaria.
"My wife Wambui is really good in self-diagnosis. She thought I had malaria. I also went to a doctor in Nairobi who said I had a vitamin D deficiency," he said.
"I returned to Nairobi for check-ups and was given supplements."
He later sort services of another doctor who conducted about 30 tests but with no concrete outcome.
The second referred him to a specialist based in the United Kingdom
"I left that very night to London and it was there that a haematologist diagnosed me with acute myeloid leukaemia - a type of cancer that starts in the blood-forming cells of the bone marrow and is curable," he said.
The Safaricom boss notes that in the UK he was informed that the condition had lasted for about six months.
"I was diagnosed with cancer. The doctors told me at the time that I had probably had it for about six months. He said I was fine but noted that the treatment would he harsh and would take six to nine months."
Collymore recently returned into the country after undergoing treatment in the UK.