Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital

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Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital
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A park in Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital
Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital
Geography
LocationKano, North west, Kano, Nigeria
Coordinates 11°57′45″N8°33′07″E / 11.9626°N 8.5519°E / 11.9626; 8.5519
Organisation
Funding Government hospital
Type Teaching
Services
Emergency department Available
Links
Website akth.gov.ng
Lists Hospitals in Nigeria
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Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital

Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital is a Federal Government Teaching Hospital located in Kano State, Nigeria. It was formerly known as Bayero University Teaching hospital. The current chief medical director is Abdurrahman Abba Sheshe. [1]

Contents

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]

Departments

Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital has sixteen clinical departments: Internal Medicine, Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Surgery, Ophthalmology, ENT, Dental and Maxillofacial surgery, Radiology, Histopathology, Chemical Pathology, Haematology and blood transfusion, and Medical microbiology. [7]

Leadership

AKTH has been managed by various distinguished medical professionals.

Renovation

The Economy community of West Africa state (ECOWAS) renovate the Rehabilitation center and drug treatment facility in Aminu Kano teaching hospital. [11]

Commission

In August 2024 a geriatrics ward was commissioned in the hospital, which makes it the first Northern hospital which is the first in the northern Nigeria. [12]

Partnership

Aminu Kano teaching hospital and the Universitätsmedizin Greifswald (UMG) ,a hospital in Germany collaborated with National blood services agency to enhance(NBSA) to enhance blood transfusion safety Nation wide. [13]

References

  1. 1 2 I. Garba, Lubabatu (3 January 2020). "Nigeria: Dr Sheshe Appointed As New AKTH CMD". Daily Trust. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
  2. "Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH) | VECD Global Health Fellowship". Archived from the original on 2021-05-17. Retrieved 2021-02-23.
  3. "Our Experience at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital in Kano, Nigeria". 14 November 2018.
  4. Yakasai, Ia; Ugwa, Ea; Otubu, J (2013). "Gynecological malignancies in Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital Kano: A 3 year review". Nigerian Journal of Clinical Practice. 16 (1): 63–66. doi: 10.4103/1119-3077.106768 . PMID   23377473.
  5. Iliyasu, Z; Abubakar, IS; Abubakar, S; Lawan, UM; Gajida, AU (December 2010). "Patients' satisfaction with services obtained from Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Northern Nigeria". Nigerian Journal of Clinical Practice. 13 (4): 371–8. PMID   21220848.
  6. "Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital | International Society of Substance Use Professionals". Archived from the original on 2021-05-17. Retrieved 2021-02-23.
  7. "AKTH – Baby Friendly Hospital".
  8. "Buhari's former physician speaks: We should be patient with president's health – Prof Wali". 25 February 2017.
  9. "Tribute to a mentor: Prof Abdulhamid Dutse". 16 October 2020.
  10. "Nigeria: Mohammed Is Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital Chief Medical Director". Daily trust. 12 October 2011. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
  11. Habib, Gift (2025-03-28). "ECOWAS renovates drug rehabilitation centre in Kano". Punch Newspapers. Retrieved 2025-03-30.
  12. "THE NORTH FIRST GERIATRICS HOSPITAL WARD – THISDAYLIVE". www.thisdaylive.com. Retrieved 2025-03-30.
  13. Nigeria, Guardian (2025-02-13). "German hospital partners NBSA, AKTH to improve blood transfusion safety". The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News. Retrieved 2025-03-30.

https://akth.gov.ng/