Kano Research Center Calls for Collaborative Efforts to Tackle Healthcare Challenges

Ahmad Sorondinki in Kano

The Kano State Independent Research Trust Center has stressed the need for active collaboration among government, research, and private institutions in order to tackle the pressing challenges of healthcare delivery in Nigeria.

The Research Center established in 2013, by Pfizer, for the Kano State government to conduct biomedical and healthcare research on communicable and non-communicable diseases, insisted that the collaboration would ensure increased access to healthcare, affordability of health services and improve overall efficiency.

Addressing journalists at the conclusion of its medical outreach held in Kano, the Chief Medical Director of the Trust, Dr. Jamil Ismail Ahmad insisted that, “the government needs to come in, research institutions like ours need to come in, the private sector, the philanthropists, and even the people themselves need to come in to make things better.”

He explained that it was against this background and in line with their corporate responsibility that they organised the outreach program, explaining that their target was to attend to between 3,000 to 4,000 patients suffering from different communicable and non-communicable ailments such as malaria, pneumonia, hepatitis, and HIV, among others.

He observed that the medical services provided to patients included consultations, checking of vital signs, free drug dispensation, and medical advice and awareness to patients, in addition to a few cases of referrals.

He further told journalists that they would commence clinical service in the office by the third week of September 2023, adding that the equipment, manpower, and other critical resources necessary to take off were already on the ground.

The Chief Imam of the Mosque, Sheikh Muhammad Nasir Adam, expressed appreciation to the research trust while calling on members of the public to embark on a similar life-saving venture.