{"id":164926,"date":"2025-05-30T10:17:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T09:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/katsina-govt-shuts-down-22-health-institutions"},"modified":"2025-05-30T11:20:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T10:20:36","slug":"katsina-govt-shuts-down-22-health-institutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/katsina-govt-shuts-down-22-health-institutions","title":{"rendered":"Katsina govt shuts down 22 health institutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Katsina State Government has shut down 22 private health training institutions that did not meet the minimum operational standards for basic academic and professional health training in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Hon. Umar Mammada, Special Adviser to the Governor for Tertiary Health Institutions, revealed the news in a press conference detailing the findings of a government inaugurated visitation panel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am concerned about the number of private health training colleges in Katsina. Many of these colleges do not meet acceptable healthcare training standards,\u201d Hon. Mammada indicated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe panel was constituted on October 25, 2024 to determine whether the private health training institutions in Katsina were compliant with academic, infrastructural and professional standards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf the 31 private health institutions across the state the panel assessed, only nine were compliant with the necessary academic, infrastructural and professional standards,\u201d Hon. Mammada stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe other 22 will remain closed until they comply with the guidelines presented by the regulators.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that only qualified training institutions will be allowed to operate in the state henceforth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Katsina State Government has shut down 22 private health training institutions that did not meet the minimum operational standards for basic academic and professional health training in the state. Hon. Umar Mammada, Special Adviser to the Governor for Tertiary Health Institutions, revealed the news in a press conference detailing the findings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":164924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[17543,225,254],"class_list":["post-164926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-health-institutions","tag-katsina","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Katsina govt shuts down 22 health institutions - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Katsina State Government has shut down 22 private health training institutions that did not meet the minimum operati ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/katsina-govt-shuts-down-22-health-institutions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Katsina govt shuts down 22 health institutions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Katsina State Government has shut down 22 private health training institutions that did not meet the minimum operati ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/katsina-govt-shuts-down-22-health-institutions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-05-30T09:17:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-05-30T10:20:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1748587885.079917.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1556\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1184\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/katsina-govt-shuts-down-22-health-institutions#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/katsina-govt-shuts-down-22-health-institutions\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Katsina govt shuts down 22 health institutions\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-05-30T09:17:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-05-30T10:20:36+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/katsina-govt-shuts-down-22-health-institutions\"},\"wordCount\":183,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/katsina-govt-shuts-down-22-health-institutions#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1748587885.079917.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"health institutions\",\"Katsina\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/katsina-govt-shuts-down-22-health-institutions#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/katsina-govt-shuts-down-22-health-institutions\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/katsina-govt-shuts-down-22-health-institutions\",\"name\":\"Katsina govt shuts down 22 health institutions - 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