Gaya General Hospital, Kano, Nigeria

Capacity

Tertiary

300 beds

Inpatient and outpatient, operating 24 hours. One of the larger bed bases in Kano.

Staffing by cadre

117 clinical staff

Doctors

Nurses & midwives

Lab scientists

Pharmacists

Dentists

HIM officers

Services on site

4 of 5

Laboratory

Imaging & radiology

Pharmacy

Ambulance

Mortuary

How care flows here

One of Kano’s 4 highest-level hospitals

Healthcare in Kano works like a ladder. Everyday care happens at the state’s 1,244 local clinics and health centres. Anything they cannot treat is sent up to one of 170 bigger general and specialist hospitals. The hardest cases of all end up at a top-level hospital, and Kano has only 4 of those. This is one of them.

4 tertiarythis hospital · the hardest cases

170 secondarybigger hospitals

1,244 primaryeveryday care

Record

19/16/1/3/1/0006

Facility level

Tertiary

Ownership

Public, State Government

Address

Matamawa along Maiduguri road Gaya Local government kano

Operating hours

24 hours

Operational status

Functional

Coordinates

8.98944, 11.86777

Veligraph ID

AF-NG-19-16-1-3-1-0006

Source agreement

Current

Nigeria Health Facility Registry (v2)Federal Ministry of Health · beds, staffing, services, contacts2026

GRID3 Nigeria cross-referenceLocation confirmedmatched

Record first publishedFrom the 2026 national register import; changes will be noted hereAug 2026

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