The Kano State Private Health Institutions Management Agency has shut down more than 35 private health facilities for regulatory violations in the last 12 months.
The Acting Director-General of PHIMA, Hajiya Khadijah Sa’id, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Kano on Tuesday.
Sa’id, who is also the agency’s Director of Administration and General Services, said the sanctions were part of efforts to enforce standards and protect residents from unsafe healthcare practices.
She identified operating without a licence, failure to renew annual registration and employing unqualified personnel as major violations uncovered during routine inspections.
“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.
The acting director-general explained that some facilities were temporarily closed to allow their proprietors to correct identified violations before reopening.
She, however, said
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