The Kano State Private Health Institutions Management Agency has shut down more than 35 private health facilities for regulatory violations in the last 12 months.
The Acting Director-General of PHIMA, Hajiya Khadijah Sa’id, said this in an interview with newsmen in Kano today.
Sa’id, who is also the agency’s Director of Administration and General Services, said the sanctions were part of efforts to enforce standards and protect residents from unsafe healthcare practices.
operating without a licence, failure to renew annual registration with unqualified personnel were major violations uncovered during routine inspections.
The acting director-general explained that some facilities were temporarily closed to allow their proprietors to correct identified violations before reopening.
She, however, stressed that facilities found guilty of serious breaches could be permanently delisted, with the responsible proprietors barred from registering another facility using their professional licences.
