By Hadiyatullah Garba

Director General of Private Health Institution Management Agency Professor Salisu Ahmad Ibrahim said his agency will sign memorandum of understanding with maryam Abacha University.

The Director General stated this at the office of the Chairman and Founder Governing Council of the Maryam Abacha American University Professor Adamu Abubakar Gwarzo.

He said the visit was aimed at establishing a solid relationship that will strengthen Health Care Delivery especially in a Private Sector in Kano, adding that, there are areas that where identified problems in regards to the operations of private facilities and need areas of collaboration involving medical waist management which can be dangerous to public.

The Director General further stressed that, traditional medicine practice to be in the mainstream of the health care system so that it can be improve in quality of care and in large scale at the commercial level, Thus there is need to upgrade the knowledge of practitioners through certificate or normal courses, this will boost health care delivery in the state.

In his remarks founder of the University Professor Adamu Gwarzo commended DG PHIMA and his entourage for the visit, emphasize that no society will develop without education especially scientific knowledge.

He therefore assured his redness to joint hands together with any meaningful organisation to move the  state forward.

By Hadiyatullah Garba

The Director General Kano State Private Health Institution Management Agency has reaffirmed that, his agency will Synergies with associations to curtail spread of illegal drugs among the people in the State.

The DG made the assertion while receiving the Kano State Hospital Friends Alliance Committee who paid him a courtesy visit in his office.

Professor Salisu Ahmad ibrahim said since his assumption into office he received various organizations who are willing to map out strategies and modalities which will in turn stride positive outcomes, adding that, The Agency has contacting DSS to joint hands together to conduct an investigation with the aim at fishing out culprits on drug abuse and most often engage in mobile operations to curtail the supply of illegal drugs,” but with the emergence of your association, I will also partner with your association to bring sanity into the health system in the state” DG said.

In his remarks, the chairman of the Committee Professor Mohammad Lawan kaurangini said the visit to the agency was aimed at conducting a stakeholders consultation and advocacy meeting on leveraging partnership for health development programmes and activities in the state.

He said they have members in all the 44 local government in the state who always engage to provide enabling environment for easy access to health facilities, stressing that, “We supply a lot of hospital items through the philanthropic intervention and we are equally mobilising people through the help of imams, ward head, traditional rulers as well as community volunteers to admonish people to go near by hospital when they are sick in order to reduce mortality rate”. Said the Committee Chair.

He however urge governments and the concern citizens as collective responsibility to curtail the supply of illegal drugs or to mitigate the free flow of such harmful substances in the state and also called on the government to give them office and vehicles to discharge their duties effectively.

By Hadiyatullah Garba

The Director General Kano State Private Health Institutions Management Agency Professor Salisu Ahmad ibrahim has pledge to partner with any progressive health association to compliment Kano State Government efforts in enhancing Private Health Institution in the State.

The Director General disclose this while interacting with members of Nigerian Association of patient proprietary medicine vendors, when they paid him a familiarity visit at the conference hall of the agency.

In his remarks the chairman of the association mohammad nura abubakar Wudil congratulate DG PHIMA for the new appointment, describing it a well deserved and urge him to maintain the existing cordial relationship to move the health sector forward.

He said in 1999 almost 6000 thausand members were registered by the Pharmaceutical Council of Nigeria yet a lot found it difficult to get access to their licence despite the annual registration renewal.

The Chairman then solicited the support of the state government to shoulder the responsibility of sponsoring special programmes and training workshops for it’s members to acquire knowledge and technical know how inorder to make them qualify in their profession.

in his remarks DG PHIMA Professor Salisu Ahmad ibrahim thanks the association for the visit stressing that, the state government is ready to partner with health association to mobilise vulnerable among the citizens to have access to medical care, “that is why lafiya Jari was introduced to assist people in the state, and i will advise government to engage your members in lafiya jari to make the system more effective” said the DG.

He however drew the attention of the executive members of the association to ensure that each drug seller register with PSN in order to bring sanity in to the system with a view to fish out unqualified personal among them, also said it will bring more revenue generation if a proper verification was conducted.

The Director General assure them his redness to operate an open door policy to carry everybody along, hence advise those who have problems with PCN to write a petition and forward it to his office.

By Hadiyatullah Garba

The Director General 0f Private Health Institution Management Agency Professor Salisu Ahmad ibrahim has directed his staff operational team to seal Kainuwa Medical Centre Hotoro with immediate effect.

The Director General disclose this at the conference hall of the agency during a meeting with the Head of the Medical centre.

He said Closing the Centre became necessary considering the numerous complaints received against the credibility of providing unqualified personals and equipment.

Added that according to the investigation conducted by his task force Committee the centre lack four factors responsible for the establishment of either clinic or hospital among which includes failure to register with PHIMA, keeping drugs at their Pharmacy more than what is required by the law, lack of qualify doctors for medical checking to patients when the need arise as well as lack of qualified nurses who will render medical services while admitting the Patients.

He therefore drew the attention of all the health private institutions in the state to ensure that they meets the requirements of the law.

In another development Solina Centre for International Development and Research paid a courtesy visit to DG PHIMA.

In his remarks the Executive Program Director Adesola Arowolo said the Primary objective of the program is to reduce maternal mortality rates and strengthen system for safer child birth across public and Private facilities in three states Kano, Delta and Lagos.

While responding in the conference hall of the Agency DG PHIMA Professor Salisu Ahmad thanks delegation for the visit, pledge to work with them to move Kano State forward.