Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital was established in August, 1988 when the Kano State Government formally handed over the then Aminu Kano Cottege Hospital to the Federal Government to be used as a Teaching Hospital.

 

The hospital which temporarily started operation at Murtala Mohd. Specialist Hospital moved to its permanent site in 1996.  Today the hospital has grown to be a full 500 bedded Teaching hospital with some modern equipment and facilities. The hospital has a staff strength of two thousand four hundred out of which over one hundred are consultants in various specialities. One major area that the hospital has impacted on the lives of the people is in the area of kidney transplant.