Prof. Ahmed Hamidu, ‘Famous Medical Doctor Who Made Huge Contributions to Healthcare Service delivery’

The preservation and restoration of health are integral parts of any healthy and well-functioning society. 

Professor Ahmed Hamidu innovation, hard work, and devotion changed the face of Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital Shika.

His achievements is remarkable in every sense. People are bound to wonder. It’s the kind that fables are made of. 

we are keenly aware of the work that you’re doing to help patients across Nigeria.  

The Chief Medical Director, Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital Shika, Prof. Ahmed Hamidu have delightfully and patriotically risen to the task.  The ABU Teaching Hospital Shika, is the only federal government owned tertiary health facility in Kaduna state, which also renders medical services nation wide .

The CMD effectively has proven to be an uphill task as virtually at preceding Medical Directors can attest. The hospital is perennially plagued by shortage of personnel, especially medical doctors, drugs, facilities and restive medical unions. 

With lean resources, it takes the grace of God to create impact in the management of the medical facility to satisfy public yearnings for qualitative and affordable tertiary health care delivery to the citizenry.

However, an astute administrator and prudent manager of resources, Prof. Ahmed Umdagas Hamidu,  who was appointed the MD on 24th May 2019 by the president of nigeria Muhammadu Buhari,  is gradually daring the odds, breaking the barriers and creating unexpected impacts.

 His judicious application of meagre resources has set the hospital on an unprecedented path of development, attracting public applause to his credit.

Prof. Hamidu stands tall from his predecessors, with glaring and uncommon development strides and impacts on the medical facility. What arrested public instant attention recently, he improved sanitary condition of the health facility.

Clean wards, beddings, flowery and scintillating environment, with inviting fragrance were alluring.  Staff discipline has also improved, as services were speedily rendered to patients and with an unusual politeness. 

This is a marked departure from the culture of the past when staff were more at home bullying patients. 

Or put differently, their uncouth official behavior was capable of worsening the health condition of an already traumatized  patients battling with life.

Aside improving the working atmosphere and interaction between staff and patients, the incumbent administrator has delved into providing special services not offered by the hospital before now.  

For the first time in the history of the hospital, medical services that have never been provided that  had to spend huge sums of money to access the services in Abuja or elsewhere, but PROF. AHMED HAMIDU has ended the nightmare.

Majority of the people in Zaria, kaduna and neighbouring states excitedly how they have been   relieved from the burden of seeking such specialized services at exorbitant costs in far places and praised the foresight and dexterity of the new leadership at ABU Teaching Hospital Shika led by Prof. Ahmed Hamidu.

Therefore, we understand that those who are disciplined enough to impact with little resources, can perform incredibly even when they are trusted with more funds.  

I am impressed that Prof. Hamidu has demonstrated commitment to the development of the hospital and he is uncompromisingly  determined to reposition it as one of the best of such health facilities in the country.

That he has been able to minimize the industrial restiveness in the hospital from medical unions alone is an indication of his unbeatable suave in leadership.

I hope to see more of such positive results sprout from this health facility.

Comrade Musa Mohammed is a Media Practitioner (Kaduna Based Journalist) write this Article.