Kano government sacks hospital CMD over alleged negligence of duty
The Kano State Government has sacked the Chief Medical Director of Hasiya Bayero Paediatric Hospital, Dr Yunusa Sunusi, for alleged negligence of duty and capacity to drive the policies of free consultation, admission and treatment.
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The Executive Secretary, of Kano State Hospitals Management Board, Dr. Mansur Mudi Nagoda announced this in a statement by the board’s Public Relations Officer, Samira Suleiman.
According to the statement, the board in an unscheduled visit to hospitals under its care went to the hospital and found the CMD wanting and sacked him with immediate effect.
“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,” the statement read.
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.
