- Dr. Yunusa Sunusi, Chief Medical Director of Hasiya Bayero Paediatric Hospital, is dismissed by Kano State Government for failing to implement free healthcare policies
- The hospital board cited poor management, non-functioning lab, and other issues for his removal, appointing a new CMD and specialists
Dr Yunusa Sunusi, the Chief Medical Director of Hasiya Bayero Paediatric Hospital, was fired by the Kano State Government just three weeks after the hospital reopened for allegedly lacking the capacity to drive the government’s policies of free consultation, admission, and treatment.
Samira Sulaiman, the Hospital Management Board’s (HMB) Public Relations Officer, said in a statement on Thursday that the board went to the hospital on an unscheduled visit and found the CMD wanting and sacked him with immediate effect.
The decision was taken after a long deliberation with the Hon. 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 midnight and still found the facility in an unfavorable state urging that corrections should be implemented but still it remained the same, the statement read in part.
It was stated that despite being a consultant in the field of paediatrics, Dr. Nagoda lamented that the CMD lacked the capacity to manage human resources and provide satisfactory hospital administration and that he was not proactive in any way and did not appear to demonstrate any sign of leadership.
The executive secretary also stated that during their visit to the hospital, they discovered two wards upstairs closed despite adequate staffing, as well as the ground floor being full while patients were managed on pathways, which is an act of sabotage.
In breech of proclamation of government on the policy of free treatment, drugs and 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 but to run test in other labs outside the facility, it stated.
Dr. Nagoda explained that these were the compelling reasons that mandated the board and ministry to post Dr. Ibrahim Ibni Muhammad, an experienced 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.