By Umar Dankano Yola.
The National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria (NPMCN) has inspected facilities at Modibbo Adama University Teaching Hospital Yola as part of accreditation procedures to establish department of family medicine and sustaining quality postgraduate training and healthcare delivery.
During the accreditation exercise for the hospital’s emerging department of family medicine on Friday, the team after a strategic meeting with the management of the hospital inspected different relevant facilities available with a view to ensure viability, effectiveness, efficacy and efficiency.
The accreditation team comprised Dr. Fatai Olaniyan of the University College Hospital, Ibadan (Faculty Chairman and Team Leader), Dr. Remen Longmut (Faculty Treasurer and Team Secretary), and Dr. Abdulrahman Mohammed (Member).
Welcoming the team, the CEO/CMD, Prof. Bakari Adamu Girei, traced the hospital’s evolution from a Federal Medical Centre to a full-fledged Teaching Hospital, driven by a vision for quality, accessible and affordable healthcare across its five service centres.
He assured the team of management’s readiness to implement all recommendations to strengthen training and service delivery, while noting that bureaucratic delays in funding remain a challenge.
Earlier, Team Lead Dr. Fatai Olaniyan commended MAUTH management for its warm reception and visible developmental strides, assuring that the exercise would be professional, objective and transparent.
The team expressed satisfaction with the hospital’s high patient turnout, 700-bed capacity, stable power supply, clean and well-maintained environment, qualified manpower, multidisciplinary services, and availability of basic high-tech diagnostic equipment and functional operating theatres.
It also noted management’s substantial investment in line with the Faculty’s curriculum.
The team specifically commended Prof. Bakari for his visionary leadership, dedication and unwavering commitment to repositioning MAUTH as a centre of excellence in healthcare delivery, training and research.
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In his closing remarks, Prof. Bakari appreciated the team for its candour, professionalism and commitment to upholding high standards in postgraduate medical education.
In his vote of thanks, the Head of Department, Family Medicine, Dr. Kennedy Kane, thanked the CMD and management for ensuring a hitch-free exercise praising the accreditation team for its resilience, recalling that despite flight disruption caused by turbulent weather which forced their flight to return to Abuja, the team courageously returned on Wednesday morning and proceeded with the exercise without rest
