Kano PHIMA seals private clinic for law violations

The Kano State Private Health Institutions Management Agency (PHIMA)in its efforts to sanitise the health sector, has sealed off Sassauka Clinic and Diagnosis Centre, located at Rimin Kebe in Ungogo LGA.

The information officer of the ministry, Alhaji Ibrahim Abdullahi on Saturday, said the development was part of ongoing efforts to sanitise activities of the private health institutions across the state.

He added that giving reasons necessitated the closure of the clinic, the Director General of the PHIMA, Prof. Salisu Ahmad Ibrahim, maintained that it was a result of violating the laws of the agency by the clinic.

According to him, in the first place, the name of the clinic registered with the PHIMA differs from the name it currently using, saying that the name of the clinic registered is Sassauka Clinic and Diagnosis but uses Sassauka Hospital without proper documentation that allows them to change the name.

Professor Ibrahim explained further that they also increased their services without notifying the PHIMA, citing that they changed the clinic from the initial six-bed clinic they have been approved for to a forty-bed capacity.

He however disclosed that the law of the agency stipulated that three medical doctors must be provided to a forty-bed capacity clinic, but in the case of Sassauka clinic it still manages one doctor and he was not always present.

He lamented that even the supporting staff that assisted in running the clinic were grossly inadequate as per as the standard of operations is concerned.

Professor Ibrahim therefore added that based on the above-listed offences and other issues, according to the DG, the clinic was clampdowned and the owner was invited to the PHIMA in the following week to look at what law of the agency stipulates to be guided aright in order to continue the operation upon fulfilling all the requirements.

He then reiterated the unwavering resolve of the PHIMA to keep on sanitizing activities of the private health institutions in the state, urging them to cooperate with his agencies in order to achieve the goal, which is providing excellent health service delivery to the people.

Prof Ibrahim commended the state governor Abba Kabir Yusuf for the optimal attention he accorded the healthcare system of the state by putting in the needed strengths and resources to revive the sector to meet the global standard of operations.

He equally lauded and appreciated the level of support and guidance of the Commissioner for Health Dr. Abubakar Labaran to the PHIMA and other agencies under the ministry to discharge their activities with all the liberties devoid of interference so that people of the state become healthy and thrilled.

 

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