Just three weeks after the hospital’s reopening, the Kano State Government dismissed Dr. Yunusa Sunusi as its chief medical director for claimed dereliction of duty and “capacity to drive the government’s policies of free consultation, admission, and treatment.”
This is stated in a statement prepared by Samira Sulaiman, the Hospital Management Board’s public relations officer, which was made available to the public on Thursday night.
The statement claims that after an impromptu visit to one of the hospitals it oversees, the board found the CMD to be unsatisfactory and promptly fired him.
“The decision was made following a thorough discussion with the Commissioner of Health, Dr. Abubakar Yusuf Labaran, and the Executive Secretary of the Kano State Hospitals Management Board, Dr. Mansur Mudi Nagoda. This was due to the failure to organise staff and implement the government’s declared policies of free consultation, admission, and treatment.
The statement said in part, “His Excellency, the Executive Governor of Kano State, Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf, has visited the facility on several occasions, usually at midnight and still found it in an unfavourable state, urging that corrections should be implemented but still it remained the same.”
Despite being a consultant in the field of hospital administration, Nagoda reportedly bemoaned the CMD’s inability to effectively manage human resources.
The statement claimed that the CMD lacked any kind of initiative and showed no signs of leadership.
The Executive Secretary also said that during their visit to the hospital, they discovered two upper wards that were locked and unattended despite having enough personnel, as well as a complete ground floor with patients being handled on walkways, which they believe to be an act of sabotage.
“Drugs and fundamental research are paid for and receipted in violation of the government’s declaration about the policy of free treatment.
The lab was also allowed two weeks to be up and running, but it was still not working, forcing patients to conduct testing at other labs outside the institution, it said.
The board and ministry were directed by these compelling reasons, according to Nagoda, to appoint Dr. Ibrahim Muhammad, a seasoned administrator and paediatrician, to assume the position of CMD and to send two senior consultants, Dr. Jamila Sani and Dr. Aisha Yahaya, to establish and manage a specialised clinic inside the facility.
