Gakuya backs proposed Gen Z’s TikTok community hospital
By Aloys Michael, October 7, 2025Embakasi North Member of Parliament James Gakuya has ramped up support for the proposed Gen Z TikTok community hospital, urging the youths to remain focused and intentional about shaping the country’s future.
In an interview on a local TV station on Tuesday, October 7, 2025, Gakuya said the youth must avoid idleness and instead channel their energy into meaningful, collaborative action, such as the proposed TikTok community hospital.
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“Who is sitting on their own? So what they should do is to create their space and find their own space. The field is too big, and once you are creative enough, just grab the space that is available,” he said.
The MP insisted that Gen Z has huge untapped potential and should not wait for formal employment to define their success. He encouraged them to view challenges not as barriers, but as motivation to innovate.
“There is no need for you to keep on playing those idle games there at home or expecting that, in fact, until when you make an application, and that application gives you a room for a vertical job, it’s only when you can call yourself (employed),” he said.
Gakuya said the youth-led hospital idea is a blueprint for youth empowerment, proof that young people can drive development through digital platforms, savings groups, and creativity.
“They can do many things. And I can tell you, there is no major amount of money that you can say, this is what you can be able to save. They can be able to save in groups and make big things,” the legislator said.
He urged the political class and other stakeholders to recognise the potential of Kenya’s digital-savvy youth and support their ambitions.
“They are many in number, and in fact, they can contribute towards good things in the future,” he added.
TikTok community hospital
According to several participants, including JCM church Bishop Ben Kiengei, who has promised to provide an ambulance, in the whole idea, there is an urgent need to construct a physical community hospital that shall serve the nation at large, but whose basis is the TikTok community.
The proposed facility, dubbed the ‘TikTok Community Hospital,’ aims to provide free, specialised medical care, including cancer treatment, heart disease services, and general healthcare, in response to ongoing challenges in the national health system.
The fantasy hospital, set to gobble up billions, is also meant to serve patients free of charge, with the upkeep costs being met by the generosity of Kenyans on TikTok and the ever-present spirit of fundraising.
Even though no tangible steps have been put in place to actualise the idea, and no official fundraiser has been started yet, TikTok is awash with videos, AI-generated concept images of the hospital, and messages of support from creators who won’t stop breaking down the concept and breathing life into it.
Users are now calling on Kenya’s estimated 10 million TikTokers to “do what the government can’t” and “build hope where systems have failed.”
Others have floated a suggestion – every single TikTok user can simply donate as little as Ksh100, and, given their Math, this could easily translate to Ksh1 billion, enough for the grand medical centre.