Islamic Medical Association of Nigeria, IMAN, Bauchi State chapter, will establish a hospital and a school to render services to people. Speaking at the second state congress meeting of the association in Bauchi, its state chairman, Dr. Muhammad Alkali, disclosed that the hospital, when established, would provide medical care for people in line with the provisions of Islam.
The chairman who is also the chief medical director, CMD, of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, TBUTH, emphasised that the hospital would also have a mechanism to respond to disaster situations and epidemics through its professional members who would render humanitarian services to victims regardless of their faiths.
He said the association has set up a committee for the establishment of the hospital which he said was saddled with the responsibility of finding a temporary site for its take-off either in Bauchi metropolis or Azare.
The chairman noted that the hospital would take-off before the first year anniversary of the association’s executive council in November. The IMAN chairman added that the association would collaborate with local and international organisations to provide quality medicare and support in various fields of medical practice.
He noted that the association would also provide a platform for grooming talents in the medical field in order to provide professionally competent medical manpower in health institutions in the state. While speaking, national chairman of the association, Dr. Salisu Ismail, commended the Bauchi State chapter of the association for its effort to help the people.
Represented by former national ex-officio of the association, Dr. Abdullahi Danlami, he said although the main aim of the association is to render medical services to the less- privileged, it also focuses on the prevention of communicable diseases and epidemics as witnessed in the case of Ebola and Lassa fever recently.
