Kenyatta University Teaching and Referral Hospital (KUTRRH) has been inspected by the medical council in readiness to accept Kenyatta University medical students to train at the Hospital.
KUTRRH board chair has said the inspection is a pre-condition for any hospital to receive approval from Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council to accept students.
This will put an end to the internship practicals stalemate that has lingered between the two institutions.
“The chairman and CEO of KMPDC led the inspection team to KUTRRH to assess its readiness to receive KU medical students to train at the Hospital,” Mugenda said.
“KUTRRH has remained ready since 2020 when the MoU was signed with KU and we are happy that after the report from KMPDC is received, the students can start training in the approved areas of specialisation,” she affirmed.
Students at Kenyatta University have for long been on the receiving end as ownership wrangles between the two institutions took centre stage.
The ownership stalemate pitying the university and the hospital saw the University unable to mount new programames.
In their submissions in Parliament last year, the university accused the hospital of restricting students whereby only certain years were supposed to be for their practicals at the hospital despite all students being required to have hands on experience.
In the planning of the hospital, it was the expectation of the university that the College of health sciences would be housed on the hospital grounds.
The facilities that were meant for the school were however repurposed.
Similarly, the specialized laboratories that were meant for training neuro, orthopedic, gastroenterology, and cardiothoracic surgeries among others have since been turned into a funeral home by the hospital, thus limiting access by the university.
