The Kano State Government has removed Dr. Yunusa Sunusi from his position as the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of Hasiya Bayero Paediatric Hospital, just three weeks after the hospital’s reopening, due to allegations of negligence of duty and a failure to implement government policies of free consultation, admission, and treatment.
The announcement was made through a statement from the Hospital Management Board’s Public Relations Officer, Samira Sulaiman.
According to the statement, the board conducted an unscheduled visit to hospitals under its care, during which it found Dr. Sunusi’s performance lacking, resulting in his immediate termination.
The statement explained, “The decision was taken after a long deliberation with the Commissioner of Health, Dr Abubakar Yusuf Labaran, and the Executive Secretary Kano State Hospitals Management Board, Dr Mansur Mudi Nagoda, after failing to organise 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 unfavourable state urging that corrections should be implemented but still it remained the same.”
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It stated that Nagoda lamented that the CMD lacked the capacity to manage human resources and render satisfactory hospital administration despite being a consultant in the field of paediatrics.
According to the statement, the CMD was not proactive in any way and did not seem to demonstrate any sign of leadership.
The Executive Secretary further said that during the visit to the hospital, they met two wards upstairs closed despite adequate staffing, in addition to the ground floor being full while patients were being managed on pathways, which is an act of sabotage.
“In breach of the 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 tests in other labs outside the facility,” it stated.
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Nagoda explained that these were the compelling reasons that mandated the board and ministry to post Dr Ibrahim 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.
GOOD EVENING NIGERIA reports that this removal comes barely a month after the board approved the immediate removal and replacement of the Chief Medical Officers of Imam Wali General Hospital, Abubakar Imam Urology Centre, and Nuhu Bamalli Maternity Hospital.
In addition, the Executive Secretary of the Board, had also suspended of all doctors and nurses who were on duty for the evening and night shifts on Sunday, July 30, 2023.
It said decision was taken urgently due to the negligence of the affected staff in carrying out their duties by absconding from their duty posts and leaving patients in the hands of students.