The Chief Medical director of the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH), Professor Aminu Zakarai Mohammed has said that the hospital needed no fewer than 500 staffs to address the present inadequacy of manpower it is presently facing.
He, however, disclosed that despite the lack of manpower, the AKTH has successfully performed 30 kidney transplant for patients.
Prof. Mohammed who stated this on Thursday shortly after some journalists were conducted round some departments in the hospital, said that the hospital had been battling this issue of manpower for the over three years, noting that the embargo placed on staff recruitment by the Federal Government, has impacted negatively on the hospital manpower needs.
He however said that there was an assurance from the government that probably after the 2014 budget had been singed into law, the hospital may be given a clearance to recruit some staff.
“We can not say because we don’t have enough manpower the hospital should not performed its obligation to general members of the public, we were managing with the one we have as at hand,” he said.
Speaking further, the CMD said some of the patient that their kidney were transplanted were successful, noting that one of the female patients that were transplanted had now three children, through a successful pregnancy.
Prof. Mohammed said that most of those operated on have gone back to their normal life, stressing that the hospital now undertakes its major operations with indigenous doctors unlike in the past when operations like the kidney transplant were done with assistants from surgeons from Sudan, India and UK.
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