President Uhuru Kenyatta has awarded a Charter to The Aga Khan University-Kenya in an event on Friday, June 11, 2021.
President Kenyatta also inaugurated its ultra-modern campus in Parklands, Nairobi County.
The Aga Khan University-Kenya, which has been operating on an Interim Letter of Authority since 2002, is now the 21st private chartered University in Kenya.
Over the years, Aga Khan University-Kenya has graduated nearly 4,000 professionals serving the country and East Africa as doctors, journalists, educators and nurses.
The accreditation was granted by the Joint Commission International (JCI), the recognized global leader in health quality standards, following a rigorous Clinical Care Program Certification (CCPC) audit conducted in May 2021.
The JCI Clinical Care Program Certification (CCPC) Standards are intended to benchmark specialty programs against the world’s most comprehensive and competitive standards.
This is the second CCPC accreditation for the Hospital having been accredited as a Centre of Excellence for the management of Heart Attack in 2020. AKUH,N was the second hospital in Africa to attain this certification.
The Hospital became the first hospital in the region to receive the JCI accreditation in 2013, an accreditation that is reassessed every 3 years.