Senators will visit Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral and Research Hospital on Monday following concerns raised by students over the use and management of the facility.
Kenyatta University students petitioned the Senate to intervene and ensure they are granted full access to KUTRRH for learning purposes.
The students also want the Senate to recommend that Legal Notice No.4 of 2019 which recognises KUTRRH as a stand-alone parastatal be revoked.
The Senate Committee on Health chaired by Jackson Mandago will visit the university and the facility to establish the facts.
In 2004, Kenyatta University started a School of Health Sciences in order to consolidate the training of medical professionals.
The plan was to use the school to enable students to get exposure to healthcare training.
The government approved the proposal and funding request by Kenyatta University to establish a teaching, training, research and referral hospital at the main campus which would serve as a national referral centre as well as to aid medical students in their clinical training.
“Even though the facility is fully functional, lecturers and medical students from Kenyatta University have been denied access by the hospital management for teaching and learning,” the students claimed in the petition.
They said the situation would render medical students deregistered or forced to enrol afresh elsewhere to pursue their studies in medicine.
The students further claimed that efforts to address the matter by the relevant authorities have failed to yield fruit.
