The Hospitals Management Board (HMB) have been carrying out an unscheduled visit to hospitals under it’s care and has found the Chief Medical Director wanting and deposed with immediate effect in its bid to revive all health sectors in the state.
The decision was taken after a long deliberation with the Commissioner of Health Dr. Abubakar Yusuf Labaran and the Executive Secretary Kano state Hospitals Management Board Dr. Mansur Mudi Nagoda after failing to organize staff as well as implement the proclaimed government policies of free consultation, admission and treatment.
His Excellency the Executive governor of Kano State Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf has on several occasions visited the facility mostly at mid-night and still found the facility in an unfavorable state urging that corrections should be implemented but still it remained the same.
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In statement signed by public relations officer of the board Samira Suleiman said the executive secretary Dr. Nagoda lamented that the CMD lacks capacity to manage human resources, render satisfactory hospital administration despite been a consultant in the field of paediatrics adding that he was not proactive in anyway and does not seem to demonstrate any sign of leadership.
He further said that they meet two wards upstairs closed despite adequate staffing, in addition to the ground floor been full, patients managed on pathways which is an act of sabotage.
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In addition, a breech of proclamation of government policy of free treatment, drugs, a basic investigation are paid and receipted. He was also given two weeks to set the lab into action but still not functioning leaving patients with no other option than to run test in other labs outside the facility.
Dr. Nagoda explained that these were the compelling reasons which mandated the board and ministry to post Dr. Ibrahim Ibn Muhammad an experience administrator and paediatrician to take over as the CMD as well as deploying two senior consultants Dr. Jamila Sani and Dr. Aisha Yahaya to establish and run a specialist clinic in the facility.