The Kano State Government has shut down more than 35 private health facilities over regulatory violations in the last 12 months as part of efforts to protect residents and improve healthcare delivery.
The Acting Director-General of the Kano State Private Health Institutions Management Agency, Hajiya Khadijah Sa’id, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Kano on Tuesday.
Sa’id, who also serves as the agency’s Director of Administration and General Services, said the closures followed inspections that uncovered various breaches of regulations governing private healthcare facilities.
She identified operating without a valid licence, failure to renew annual registration and employing unqualified personnel as some of the major violations discovered during the inspections.
According to her, the agency had sanctioned more than 100 facilities for different offences, while those found to have committed serious violations were shut down.
“We sanctioned over 100 facilities for one mistake or the other. But those that committed gross violations that we cannot overlook, we shut down over 35,” she said.
Sa’id explained that some facilities were temporarily closed to allow their operators to correct the identified deficiencies before reopening.
However, she warned that facilities found guilty of serious breaches could be permanently delisted from the agency’s register.
She added that proprietors whose facilities were delisted could also be barred from registering another facility using their professional licences.
“Once a facility is delisted, it will not be registered again. The person holding the professional licence will also not be allowed to register another facility,” she stated.
The acting director-general explained that PHIMA regulates private hospitals, clinics, nursing and maternity homes, diagnostic laboratories, dental centres, beauty salons, spas, fitness centres and practitioners of traditional, complementary and alternative medicine.
She said the agency works with other government institutions and security operatives to identify and close illegal healthcare facilities operating across the state.
Sa’id cited an instance in which an inter-agency task force established by Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf identified a clinic that had previously been sealed and delisted but was subsequently reopened at another location.
She said the agency was strengthening routine inspections to ensure compliance with licensing requirements and professional standards across Kano State’s 44 local government areas.
The PHIMA chief added that additional funding and operational vehicles would help expand inspection coverage and improve enforcement.
She urged private healthcare operators to obtain the necessary licences, renew their registrations promptly and ensure that only qualified personnel provide medical services.
The agency said the measures were intended to protect patients from unsafe healthcare practices and promote compliance with established standards.
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