Fact Sheet of MD Saleh's Kware Transformation Agenda.
Dr. Shehu Sale, and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry, has a legacy of leaving indelible positive footprints wherever he find himself in both service delivery and academics, from when he began his career as a lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry, Bayero University Kano (BUK) and his subsequent promotions up to the time he was appointed in 2014 as the Head, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Unit of the BUK Teaching Hospital.
A position he held until his appointment in 2017 as Medical Director, Federal Neuro Psychiatric Hospital Kware in Sokoto State.
Dr. Sale's commitment and dedication to service delivery and innovative academic research had prepared him to become a leader per excellence and an achiever in the making.
These qualities are his guiding principles in mapping out meticulously elaborate governance agenda to turn around erstwhile nonfunctional departments and institutions he is mandated to spearhead.
His exemplary style of leadership, team work and interpersonal communication skills has once again manifested glaringly in how within his first three years as MD, succeeded in transforming the total out look of the hospital through infrastructure development, medical services delivery and general staff welfare and capacity building.
Prior to his appointment and assumption in office, Psychiatric Hospital Kware was faced with disturbing Infrastructure decay, man power deficit, poor service delivery, obsolete working equipment and unimpressive working condition for staff.
Dr. Shehu Sale came, he saw and he is now conquering with dramatic pace.
In this first part of series of articles on Dr. Sale's Kware Psychiatric Hospital Transformation Agenda Fact Sheet, we focus on infrastructure development and procurement of services equipment and materials.
Within his first three years in office he has executed more than thirty infrastructure projects that include total renovation of dilapidated facilities and construction of new once to enhance the hospital service delivery capacity, shifting from analogue administration processes to digital and improved security architecture of the premises to tackle incidences of theft and vandalisation of the hospital properties.
Some of the landmark infrastructure projects completed so far include renovations of pathology unit, male and female wards, administration block and reception, upgrade and rehabilitation of admission wards and out patient department (OPD)
Others are total renovation of students hostel, staff quarters, hospital guest house, MD's office, family clinic, medical laboratory complex, library and cafe.
To enhance security of the hospital, MD Sale has so far succeeded in construction and rehabilitation of the hospital perimeter fence, a 2.12 km long internal fence, entrance and exit gates, roads and drainages network, construction of both overhead and surface water reservoir tanks.
On procurement, two standby generators to guarantee power supply in the hospital, modern communication gadgets, Radio Diagnostic and Therapeutic Machines, EEG & ECT equipment, purchase of utility vehicle and repairs of grounded commuter buses for staff transportation.
Installation of solar power as an alternative source of energy.
The next publication will look at staff recruitment drive, capacity building and general welfare.
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