Fees desperation as medical student resorts to selling kidney

A clinical medicine student at the Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) resorted to selling a body organ after the college barred him from continuing with his training and examinations unless he settles fees arrears amounting to Sh67,700.

Michael Muruthi Wanjohi is looking for a person who will offer adequate money to offset the fees arrears and pay his fees for remaining years at KMTC and later for a degree course in university.

The 22-year-old second year diploma in Clinical Medicine and Surgery student wants nothing to dim his life dream of becoming a medic, hence his sudden decision.

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Muruthi who hails from a poor background in Githakwa village, Tetu constituency, Nyeri County says he has tried applying for bursaries, approaching potential well-wishers and even organizing a fundraiser, but in vain.

He adds that his single mother cannot afford to pay the fee arrears. “We don’t have any property to sell to raise money. My mother works as a casual worker in tea plantations and lives in a rented room,” he says.

He reveals that he qualified for the Nyeri County Government bursary of Sh10,000 and another from Tetu CDF of Sh3,000, which marginally reduced the fees required.

The alumni of Kiriti High School scored a B- in the 2014 KCSE but failed to attain the cut-off point for admission to university on government sponsorship.

Determined to pursue a career in medicine, he sought employment at a Nyeri hotel and later in Embu County where he saved Sh67,000 that he used to enroll to KMTC in September 2017.

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The money paid for his first semester fees and his accommodation. But during the second semester, he struggled to pay fees and was left with arrears which accumulated with the second year’s fees.

He says this year he has been in college for only three weeks and only dropped out because even getting meals was a problem.

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