Kano Inaugurates N6bn Pediatric Hospital

Ahmad Sorondinki in Kano.

Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf has inaugurated the recovered Hasiya Bayero Pediatric hospital, which would offer general pediatric services, surgery, child immunisation, nutritional services, research and training.

Addressing a mammoth crowd yesterday, at the hospital premises, located at Kano city center, Yusuf, lamented that the facility was abandoned, just as all the equipment were also stolen during the previous administration.

He noted that the recovery of Hasiya Bayero Pediatric hospital was part of the fulfillment of the campaign promises made by his party to recover the facility and to restore it to its original status for the benefit of the people, particularly children.

The State Governor expressed concern with the way and manner the previous administration shut and sold the hospital to an individual, who was said to have converted it to a shopping complex

“The hospital is one of the few Paediatric hospitals in the country and offers a lot of healthcare delivery services to the public, which include among others maternal health care, immunisation, research and training.

“The brief closure of the hospital has caused a lot of hardship to the people, we promised to recover and re-commission, which we have just achieved.
“We have given instructions for the immediate deployment of health and administrative personnel to the hospital to commence full operations. This will reduce the burden of healthcare delivery services to the people of the state,” the governor declared.

In his remark, the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Labaran Yusuf, urged medical personnel manning the hospital to make optimal use of it for the benefit of the common man

He described the recovery and re-commissioning of the hospital, as historic.