"He was never a patient here for any days," Chief Executive Office Bernard Koval told AFP.
"Osama bin Laden has never been here. He's never been a patient and he's never been treated here. This is too small a hospital for someone to be snuck through the backdoor," he said
January 2000, Dr al-Zawahiri arranged for an Iraqi doctor to examine bin Laden in Afghanistan. The Iraqi doctor prescribed a treatment involving dialyses, a series of shots and intravenous medicine-delivery, as well as an assortment of rear medications. A thorough search of Afghanistan led to the discovery of a Soviet dialysis machine and related equipment in the basement of a now-destroyed Kabul hospital originally built for the late President Najib and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) elite.
Dr Zawahiri relied on his long-time connections with the Chechen Mafiya, which go back to early 1990s and cemented in his late 1996/early 1997 clandestine visit to Chechnya and Dagestan, to have them find and quickly deliver the spare parts for the Soviet dialysis machine and other medical equipment the Iraqi doctor required.
To avoid detection, the Chechen Mafiya smuggled the equipment from Russia and Central Asian states to Iran, ostensibly to a Tehran institution affiliated with the Iranian HizbAllah. Zawahiri then sent a three-man delegation to Tehran to deliver the dialysis equipment and some essential medicines along with a local specialist physician who volunteered to join the team treating bin Laden. The Iraqi doctor returned to Afghanistan in early February. Bin Laden was then moved to his forward headquarters near Sarobi, Laghman province (between Kabul and Jalalabad), where the medical equipment was installed. The medical team led by the Iraqi doctor and Dr Zawahiri got to work, and within a month or so got bin Laden back on his feet to the point that he could attend brief meetings with guests at the Jalalabad area as of late February. Meanwhile, the intensive medical treatment continued in March as well. In late March 2000, bin Laden was healthy enough to make a rare public appearance. He attended a high-level meeting with the Taliban leadership convened in Laghman province in order to discuss US President Bill Clinton's forthcoming visit to Pakistan. According to witnesses, bin Laden appeared quite frail; his face looked weak and his beard bigger than usual. But he was well-informed, active and lucid throughout the lengthy meeting. A team of medics and more than 100 armed guards, mostly Arabs, surrounded bin Laden all the time.