Zamfara State Government has commenced the accreditation of 47 private health facilities across 14 local government areas of the State.
Director Inspectorate of the State Ministry for Health Alh Bashir Garba declared this when he featured on Thunder Blowers Online TV show”Tirka-Tirka on Saturday.
He said the operational checklist of the ministry which provides regulations for the conduct of private hospitals in Zamfara has been reviewed and made available to all the operators in the state.
He noted that since late 2020 the re-accreditation exercise has commences and so far the ministry has been able to reach out to ten private health facilities.
Garba explained further that four out of the ten private facilities have been shutdown by the ministry for cases of lack of record of registration with the ministry and violation of code of ethics in their operations.
He mentioned Dansadau nursing home, Shasha private clinic all in Gusau and two others in Bungudu and Mafara as private health facilities so far affected by the ongoing exercise.
Regarding the pressure mounted on the ministry to re-open Dansadau nursing home the director said, the closure is temporal and as soon as the operator meets up with the operational guidelines set up by the ministry the nursing home will be re-open.
