Departments Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital has sixteen clinical departments: Internal Medicine, Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Surgery, Ophthalmology, ENT, Dental and Maxillofacial surgery, Radiology, Histopathology, Chemical Pathology, Haematology and blood transfusion, and Medical microbiology.
Leadership AKTH has been managed by various distinguished medical professionals.
Prof. Sadiq Suleiman Wali – a specialist in gastroenterology and the hospital’s first Chief Medical Director. Prof. Abdulhamid Isa Dutse– a clinical hematologist and oncologist, served as CMD from 2003 to 2011. Prof. Aminu Zakari Muhammed – a histopathologist, who also served as CMD. Prof. Abdurrahman Abba Sheshe – a surgeon and the current Chief Medical Director (appointed in 2019).
Renovation The Economy community of West Africa state (ECOWAS) renovated the rehabilitation center and drug treatment facility in the teaching hospital.
Commission In August 2024, a geriatrics ward was commissioned in the hospital, which stands as the first in northern Nigeria.
Partnership Aminu Kano teaching hospital and the Universitätsmedizin Greifswald (UMG), a hospital in Germany collaborated with National Blood Services Agency (NBSA) to enhance blood transfusion safety nationwide.
References External links https://akth.gov.ng/