Emir Ado Bayero to inaugurate new Ahmadiyya hospital in Kano

THE Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Nigeria will tomorrow open a new hospital in Kano, Kano State.

The inauguration of the hospital, which is equipped with state-of-the-art facilities for 100 patients per day and offers laboratory services and general medical consultancy, will be performed by the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero.

Located off Kano-Maiduguri Road, the hospital’s foundation was laid by Emir Aminu Ado Bayero in July 2021. He was assisted at the ceremony by the Amir, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Nigeria, Alhaji Abdul-Azeez Alatoye, and then state Commissioner for Health.

According to a statement from the Muslim organisation’s media team, the Emir is expected to be accompanied to tomorrow’s inauguration by other traditional rulers within his domain. The leadership of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Nigeria led by Alhaji Alatoye will be at the event.

It said other dignitaries expected at the occasion include officials of the Kano State government, heads of state and federal government agencies and representatives of security agencies such as the police, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and the Federal Road Safety Corps.

It will be recalled the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at established its first hospital in Nigeria in Apapa in the late 1950s and next on Bompai Road, Kano, in 1962. The hospitals have been providing healthcare to the teeming people of Lagos, Kano and other cities and towns.

At the foundation laying ceremony of the new hospital in 2021, the Emir of Kano commended what he called the tremendous efforts of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community on health and education development in Nigeria and elsewhere around the world.

The statement quoted a former Federal Commissioner for Telecommunication, the late Malam Aminu Kano, as saying in 1967 when he visited the first Ahmadiyya clinic in Apapa, Lagos, that: “The government and people of this country are appreciative of the humanitarian, religious and educational work of the Ahmadiyya Mission in Nigeria.”

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at hospitals are located in New Bussa, Niger State; Apapa and Ojokoro, Lagos State; and Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State.

The statement said the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, will soon get Ahmadiyya hospital as lands have been acquired for the projects in Gwagwalada, Central Business District, and along Keffi-Abuja Expressway.

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