Sort out row over control of KU teaching and referral hospital

Controversy surrounds the newly launched Kenyatta University Teaching and Referral Hospital (KUTRH). The fight for the control of the facility that threatens to derail operations pits the university’s management against the national government.

KUTRH opened its doors last month after years of inactivity that was partly blamed on a shortage of funds to hire personnel and buy additional equipment. KUTRH was set up to operate strictly as a referral hospital as part of Kenyatta University's School of Medicine besides being a medical research centre. And mostly because of that, the model adopted wouldn't cater for walk-in patients, as is the case with the other two referral hospitals -- Kenyatta National Hospital (part of the University of Nairobi's School of Medicine) and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret (part of Moi University's School of Medicine).