For more than three months now, an urgent surgery has been postponed at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH) in Kano State due to reasons such as generator malfunction, FIJ can report.

The failure tof the hospital to conduct the surgical operation is  now worsened by the ongoing industrial action of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) that started April 1.

A patient in severe pains had been waiting to be operated on since January 2021. The patient was rejected again last Friday because of the industrial action.

According to a source in the hospital ward, the patient was “to be taken to the theatre on Friday but the doctors were not sure the surgery would be successful because the generator was malfunctioning”.

“This patient needs urgent attention because she has been constantly losing her consciousness due to the abnormal growth in the head”.

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FIJ confirmed that the hospital had recommended that the patient should undergo the surgery before August but there is now no hope until the strike is called off.

Hajiya Hauwa Abdullahi, the spokesperson of AKTH, however denied the claim that any surgery was postponed because of strike action, adding that such could only happen due to some other “underlying medical issues”.