Kaduna threatens to shut unlicensed private health colleges, hospitals

Kaduna state government says it will soon start closing down unlicensed private health schools and hospitals.

Amina Baloni, commissioner for health, disclosed this during an interview with journalists at the one-day quarterly interactive forum held in Kaduna.

The interactive forum was tagged “Improving Health Care Delivery Through Basic Health Care Provision Fund Implementation”.

Reacting to the increase in the number of unlicensed health institutions in the state, Baloni said investigation has been commenced to detect the actual number of unlicensed health colleges in Kaduna.

“Those who are not registered will be asked to come and regularise so that by the time we go out, nobody should come to intervene. Criteria for opening a school are not the same as opening a hospital,” she said.

“Just because I have a licence as a medical doctor doesn’t mean I can just go and open a medical school or that you are a nurse you can open a nursing school.”

The state government in April announced that it had spent N121.3 billion on the health sector in the last five years, enabled the implementation of healthcare programmes, expanded infrastructure, staff strength and improved access to quality services.