Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital serves three main functions: training of medical students and Resident doctors, provision of specialist medical services to the sick, and important research for the advancement of medical knowledge.
The hospital is effective in training of Bayero University medical students and postgraduate medical doctors (residency training). It recorded success over the years, including being the first government hospital to perform a successful kidney transplant in the year 2002, and the former Chief Medical Director Professor Abdulhamid Isa Dutse was instrumental in the transplant.[2][3][4][5][6]
AKTH has been managed by various distinguished medical professionals.
Prof. Sadiq Suleiman Wali – a specialist in gastroenterology and the hospital’s first Chief Medical Director.
Prof. Abdulhamid Isa Dutse– a clinical hematologist and oncologist, served as CMD from 2003 to 2011.
Prof. Aminu Zakari Muhammed – a histopathologist, who also served as CMD.
Prof. Abdurrahman Abba Sheshe – a surgeon and the current Chief Medical Director (appointed in 2019).[8][9][10][1]
Renovation
The Economy community of West Africa state (ECOWAS) renovated the rehabilitation center and drug treatment facility in the teaching hospital.[11]
Commission
In August 2024, a geriatrics ward was commissioned in the hospital, which stands as the first in northern Nigeria.[12]
Partnership
Aminu Kano teaching hospital and the Universitätsmedizin Greifswald (UMG), a hospital in Germany collaborated with National Blood Services Agency (NBSA) to enhance blood transfusion safety nationwide.[13]
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