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.
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. 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.
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.Leadership
AKTH has been managed by various distinguished medical professionals.- Prof. Sadiq Suleiman Wali – a specialist in gastroenterology and the hospital’s first Chief Medical Director.
- Prof. Abdulhamid Isa Dutse– a clinical hematologist and oncologist, served as CMD from 2003 to 2011.
- Prof. Aminu Zakari Muhammed – a histopathologist, who also served as CMD.
- Prof. Abdurrahman Abba Sheshe – a surgeon and the current Chief Medical Director.