The Emir of Kano HRH. Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero was joined by Amir sahib Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at of Nigeria Alh. (Barr) Alatoye Folorunso AbdulAzeez sahib to commission a newly built Ahmadiyya Hospital in Kano.
The Missionary in Charge sahib, the Naibeen Amir, Kano State officials and other respected members of the Jama’at were also present at the event.
The new hospital located on Kano-Zaria Road in Kano. Its foundation was performed by the Emir of Kano, His Royal Highness, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero in July 2021. He was assisted by the Commissioner for Health and the Amir Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Nigeria Alhaji Alatoye Folorunso Azeez.
The inauguration of the hospital, which is equipped with state-of-the-art facilities for 100 patients per day and offers laboratory services and general medical consultancy.
It will be recalled the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at established its first hospital in Nigeria in Apapa in the late 1950s and next on Bompai Road, Kano, in 1962. The hospitals have been providing healthcare to the teeming people of Lagos, Kano and other cities and towns.
At the foundation laying ceremony of the new hospital in 2021, the Emir of Kano commended what he called the tremendous efforts of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community on health and education development in Nigeria and elsewhere around the world.
The statement quoted a former Federal Commissioner for Telecommunication, the late Malam Aminu Kano, as saying in 1967 when he visited the first Ahmadiyya clinic in Apapa, Lagos, that: “The government and people of this country are appreciative of the humanitarian, religious and educational work of the Ahmadiyya Mission in Nigeria.”
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at hospitals are located in New Bussa, Niger State; Apapa and Ojokoro, Lagos State; and Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State.
