KU now demands Kenyatta Teaching Referral Hospital back to the University management
KU students now demand Kenyatta Teaching Referral and Research Hospital be handed back to the University management
KU students now demand Kenyatta Teaching Referral and Research Hospital be handed back to the University management.
Students at Kenyatta University (KU) demanded that the administration of the university take back control of the teaching, referral, and research hospital.
They said that if ownership of the hospital is not returned to the university, the School of Medicine will be forced to close since medical students are unable to use the facility for teaching purposes.
The demand creates a new front in the conflict between the two institutions’ managements.
The hospital was once a part of the university but was later turned into a parastatal, whose board of directors is presided over by Prof. Olive Mugenda, a former vice-chancellor.
“Our medical school could soon be de-registered and over 2,000 students left in limbo. During the last audit conducted by the East African Community national medical and dental practitioners’ boards and councils, Kenyatta University was given six months to put its house in order.”
“This included access and ownership of the Kenyatta University Referral and Research Hospital and the ability to demonstrate it can conduct teaching and research which were the core factors that led the board to give approval for the KU medical teaching programmes,” KU students association treasurer and medical student Jafer Kasaya told journalists yesterday.
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This comes less than a week after President William Ruto allocated 30 acres of the university’s land to the World Health Organisation for the establishment of a regional logistics hub.
The university’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof Paul Wainaina, has in the past vowed to ensure ownership of the hospital reverts to KU.
Last year, he was suspended after he opposed plans to donate the university’s land to WHO, the African Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, and Kamae squatters.
“It’s very painful. We worked to build the hospital and, when it was finished, it was taken away from us. We feel terrible that our students are unable to use its facilities,” said Prof Wainaina upon his reinstatement in November.
The students have threatened to take unspecified action if the dispute is not resolved within two weeks.
“Every morning, our students have to wake up as early as 4 am and travel 40 kilometres for close to two hours on strained university transport facilities to Kiambu County Level Five Hospital, which is itself under-resourced, overcrowded, and incapable of providing a stimulating environment for medical studies,” said Ms. Kasaya.
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