The Kano state government has inaugurated a Health Fellows Programme Selection Committee.
Speaking at the inauguration, the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Abubakar Labaran Yusuf, said the programme “marks a pivotal step in the health sector reform embarked upon by the state government.”
In a statement issued by the information officer of the Ministry of Health, Ibrahim Abdullahi, he said the initiative “focuses on equipping the emerging professionals with advanced leadership skills, fostering capacity building and driving service excellence to enhance the healthcare system of the state.”
Dr. Yusuf noted that the goal “is to develop future health care leaders through professional training and field engagement, enhance service delivery capabilities across disciplines including medicine, IT, social sciences, and finance and recruit top talents across 44 local government areas of the state to drive health sector transformation.”
He urged the Committee to work “assiduously to help Kano fish out such talents and enroll, mentor and teach them so as to improve their capacities which will ultimately make the system more robust and standardised.”
The Committee has State Coordinator of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Mayana Sanusi Abubakar, as its chairman, while the State Coordinator, Sector-Wide Approach Project, Dr. Nura Abubakar, serves as secretary.
Other members included the Director, Public Health and Disease Control of the Ministry, Dr. Ibrahim Aliyu Gano; Chairman, Gaya LGA, Mahmud Tajo Gaya; the Director, Planning Primary Healthcare Management Board, Aliyu Jinjiri Kiru; Dr. Musa Bello Muhammad from Mallam Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital and Dr. Sha’awa Mardiyya Sa’id from Kano Emirate Committee on Health.
In his response, the chairman of the Committee and State Coordinator WHO, Dr. Mayana Sanusi Abubakar, on behalf of WHO Country Representative, Dr. Kazadi Mulombo Walter, appreciated the Coordinating Minister of Health and Kano state Commissioner for Health for the nomination.
He assured the commissioner that the Committee would discharge its responsibility with “due diligence, transparency, equity and gender equality” to justify the confidence reposed on them.
