The presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Dr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has inaugurated the first private medical university named after his mother to commemorate his 69th birth anniversary.

Laying the foundation of the facility named Nafisatu Medical University at his country home, the national leader of the Kwankwasiyya political movement said the project was aimed at bridging the wide gap in manpower resources.

Nafisatu Medical University, Kwankwaso, came six years after Kwankwaso established the first private School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kwankwaso, also named after his late mother.

Accompanied by prominent loyalists and supporters of the red cap revolution movement, Kwankwaso said the existing nursing school would soon be upgraded to a Faculty of Health Sciences under the medical university.

Delighted with over 400 students who had graduated since the establishment of the nursing school, Kwankwaso rededicated his commitment to human capital development through functional education.

Prior to the foundation-laying ceremony, Kwankwaso had graced the graduation ceremony and presentation of certificates to new products of Nafisatu School of Nursing and Midwifery who specialised in mental and psychiatric nursing.

Chairman of the governing council of the school, Professor Salihu Garba, said 400 students were currently in the school and that 416 products had graduated in nursing, midwifery, and community midwifery.

Professor Garba explained that Nafisatu Basic Nursing and Midwifery College, Kwankwaso, was contributing to critical manpower development in medicine and health through specialities in post-basic nursing and post-psychiatric mental health programmes.
He disclosed that the college had contributed to the health growth of its immediate community with basic training in midwifery and basic health services.

“Let me at this point thank the management of this institution, the brand new provost, the new registrar, and the new bursar. You have started very well; you have started building on where the previous leaders of this institution stopped.

“We applaud the state government for sponsoring some of the community midwives. And the idea of community midwives is to train them, give them the required certificates to operate in their communities and other communities,” Garba said.

While presenting the certificates, Kwankwaso urged the certified registered nurses to remain worthy ambassadors of Kano and their families.

Kwankwaso emphasised that after the upgrade of the nursing school in affiliation with the medical university, Kano would witness an increase in the number of nurses in various specialities.