Here is the list of federal hospitals in Nigeria built and funded by the Nigerian government in the quest for better medical facilities in the country.
I bet, your presence on this post is not by accident because we are not only going to give you a comprehensive and updated list of federal hospitals in Nigeria but also all essential things you are bound to know about federal hospitals in Nigeria.
According to the federal ministry of health Nigeria, there are 22 federal hospitals or medical centres usually abbreviated as FMCs in Nigeria distributed in various states of the federation including the federal capital territory Abuja.
Most of the centres are situated in the State capitals, especially in situations where the apex secondary health institution run by the state does not adequately meet the demands for specialist health care.
Introduction to the list of federal hospitals in Nigeria
The local government provides the primary healthcare while the state government takes the responsibility of seeing through the secondary healthcare system. In the case of the tertiary health system, the federal government takes care of it.
On that note, the federal government established federal medical hospitals in states that lack federal university teaching hospitals although that does not apply to all states. For instance, Lagos state has more than one federal hospital.
The list of federal hospitals in Nigeria that will be discussed in this article provides care for routine medical and surgical problems for specific patient populations, such as cases that overcome the primary and secondary health care system.
Difference between a federal hospital and a teaching hospital
Considering the list of federal hospitals in Nigeria, we have 22 medical centres in Nigeria as earlier mentioned but over 100 teaching hospitals are scattered all over the country.
Let’s not get it twisted a federal hospital in Nigeria could also be a teaching hospital. For people that keep asking this question the question is to be rephrased as “the difference between federal teaching hospitals and other teaching hospitals” like state and organizations or individual hospitals.
In terms of capacity, the federal hospitals in Nigeria have a greater capacity to contain critical cases and accommodate many health care providers at once than other teaching hospitals within the federation.
Also, federal hospitals in Nigeria are cost-friendly compared to other hospitals in the nation because the federal government take care of the general affairs.
It is equally important you consider expensive medical equipment which can barely be afforded by states, organizations and individual owned hospitals.
There are several other differences ranging from recognition to research capacities.
What is the importance of having federal hospitals in Nigeria?
Initially, the Nigerian healthcare system is underdeveloped and does not meet critical needs. Much of the healthcare infrastructure is confined to major cities with people living in urban areas getting four times as much access to healthcare as those living in the rural areas.
The private health sector is highly fragmented, consisting of many small medical facilities that are privately owned by medical professionals. Most of these hospitals have less than 10 beds with minimal facilities.
Nevertheless, these federal hospitals stand as a bridge for most medical needs. Despite these recent improvements, Nigeria’s health infrastructure still remains low and insufficient to cater for its growing population. As a result, each year, over 10,000 Nigerians travel abroad to seek attention.
List of federal hospitals in Nigeria
- Federal Medical Centre, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State.
- Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta, Abeokuta, Ogun State.
- Federal Medical Centre, Asaba, Delta State.
- Federal Medical Centre, Abuja, Nigeria, Federal Capital Territory.
- Federal Medical Centre, Azare, Bauchi State.
- Federal Medical Centre (Bida), Bida, Niger State.
- Federal Medical Centre, Birnin-Kebbi, Kebbi State.
- Federal Medical Centre, Birnin Kudu, Jigawa State.
- Federal Medical Centre, Ebute-Meta, Lagos State.
- Federal Medical Centre, Gombe, Gombe State.
- Federal Medical Centre, Gusau, Zamfara State.
- Federal Medical Centre, Ido Ekiti, Ekiti State
- Federal Medical Centre, Jalingo, Taraba State.
- Federal Medical Centre, Katsina, Katsina State.
- Federal Medical Centre, Keffi, Nasarawa State.
- Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja, Kogi State.
- Federal Medical Centre, Makurdi, Benue State.
- Federal Medical Centre, Nguru, Yobe State.
- Federal Medical Centre, Owerri, Imo State.
- Federal Medical Centre (Owo), Owo Ondo State.
- Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia, Abia State.
- Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State
- Federal Medical Centre, Yola, Adamawa State
Federal Medical centre Abakilkiki
This hospital falls on the list of federal hospitals in Nigeria. It is generally known as Alex Ekwueme University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, as it is known today, was established in the early 1930s by the British Colonial administration.
It is a frontline tertiary health institution dedicated to the delivery of efficient, effective, and qualitative services comparable with internationally acceptable best practices. As a Teaching Hospital, it is committed to attaining its core goals.
LOCATION No. 1, Chidume Street, Behind State Prison Headquarters, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria
CONTACT Email: [email protected] Telephone: +2349032419744
Federal Medical Centre Abeokuta
This federal hospital in Nigeria is a 250-bedded regional specialist hospital, which came into existence on 21st April 1993 with a philosophy of excellence in the provision of medical services to the gateway state of Ogun and other neighbouring states and nations. It is also on the list of federal hospitals in Nigeria.
Over the years, the scope of this philosophy has gradually expanded to further encompass excellence in training and research so that today we can rightly say that the hospital stands on a tripod of excellence in research, training and health care service delivery.
LOCATION Healthy Ways,  , Abeokuta. P.M.B. 3031 Idi-Aba Abeokuta Ogun State.
CONTACT 0809 594 8007
Federal medical centre Asaba in the list of federal hospitals in Nigeria
The Federal Medical Centre, Asaba was established on the 12th of August 1998.
The institution tool over its current site from the central hospital. Asaba which itself metamorphosed from the colonial cottage \hospital of the Mid-Western region with its foundation stone was laid by the then Western Region Commissioner for Health, Mr J. Adigun, in March 1962 with a thirty-bed complement.
That was the position of the service state health institution when the federal government took over in August 1998 and renamed it Federal Medical Centre, Asaba.
With such antecedent, the new Tertiary Health Centre took off with inadequate, obsolete, dilapidated infrastructure and equipment made even worse by a lack of the take of grant. It is also on the list of federal hospitals in Nigeria.
LOCATION Along Nnebisi, by FMC Roundabout, Asaba, Delta State, Nigeria
CONTACT 0817 177 7722, 0805 555 4759, 0701 113 3354, 0903 332 6334 · info@fmcasaba.org.
Federal Medical Centre, Abuja
This hospital is an outstanding hospital in Abuja under the supervision of the federal government of Nigeria.
It is also known as the National Hospital Abuja is a hospital in Abuja, FCT, Nigeria. The hospital was founded under the Family Support Programme initiative and was formally established under Decree 36 of 1999 (Act 36 of 1999).
Abdulsalami Abubakar commissioned the hospital on 22 May 1999. It makes the list of federal hospitals in Nigeria.
LOCATION Federal Staff Hospital, Jabi, Abuja
CONTACT 0802 063 3580
Federal Medical Centre, Azare, Bauchi State
Federal Medical Centre, Azare, is a Federal Tertiary Health Institution located in Azare, Bauchi State, Nigeria.
It is a fully-functional 300-bedded hospital with state-of-the-art medical equipment. The mandate of the Centre is to provide excellent healthcare services, training and research using professional staff and modern technology.
The Centre is a parastatal under the Federal Ministry of Health, established under Decree 10 of 1985 i.e. The University Teaching Hospitals [Reconstitutions of Boards] Act, Cap 462 on 6th June 2000. It inherited the structure of the former General Hospital Azare for its takeoff on 21st October 2000.
LOCATION No. 5, Sule Katagum Road P.M.B. 005 Azare, Bauchi State, Nigeria.
CONTACT email: | [email protected], Information Officer (08036161249)
Federal medical centre Bida
The Federal Medical Centre, Bida (FMCBida) is a federal medical centre own by the federal government of Nigeria and built by the Sani Abacha military administration, it was built in 1997 and it also has a medical institution resided beside it in Bida, Niger state.
The medical centre has three major roles headed which Chairman Management is the head of the office Dr Ishaq Usmans.
LOCATION Suleija-Lapai-Bida Road, Bida niger state.
CONTACT 0802 188 6088
Federal Medical Centre, Birnin-Kebbi, Kebbi State
LOCATION P.M.B 1126 MUHAMMAD ILIYASU BASHAR ROAD BIRNIN KEBBI, KEBBI STATE
Federal Medical Centre, Birnin Kudu
The Federal Medical Centre Birnin Kudu was established as a general hospital in 1961 by the Late Premier of defunct Northern Nigeria, Sir Ahmadu Bello Sardaunan Sokoto. The hospital was later converted to a tertiary institution as a Federal Medical Centre in the year 2000. The mandate of the Hospital is to provide quality health care delivery services to our catchment population, conduct relevant health system research and training of Human Resources for Health.
FMC Birnin Kudu came into being on 3rd February 2000 MoU was signed between Jigawa State Government and Federal Ministry of Health for General Hospital Birnin Kudu to be the permanent site The 1st Medical Director was appointed in June 2000 The current MD is the 3rd –
LOCATION PMB 1022 Along Kano – Maiduguri Road, Birnin Kudu, Jigawa State.
CONTACT Phone :+2348036304601, , +2348028377672 Email :[email protected]
Federal Medical centre Ebute-Metta
In the list of federal hospitals in Nigeria, What is today known as Federal Medical Centre, Ebute – Metta, Lagos was established in 1964.
It started out as a Department of Health Services in the Nigerian Railway Corporation. It was created exclusively to cater for the health needs of staff and their families.
Between 1967 and 1970 during the 30 months long Nigerian Civil War, the hospital served as an annex to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), where wounded soldiers were treated.
The idea of commercializing the hospital was united in 1996 during the turnover of General Gumel as Transport Minister. Between 1996 and 2004, the hospital operated as a commercial business entity, even though it was still under the Nigerian Railway Corporation.
Federal Medical Centre, Gombe State
This tertiary health institution has a 300-bed capacity and was established in 1996 by the Federal Government.
Federal Medical Centre, Gusau, Zamfara State
Federal Medical Centre Gusau is a government-owned Federal Medical Centre in Gusau local government area of Zamfara State, Nigeria.
Federal Medical Centre Gusau is located at Gusau, Zamfara State. For further information contact Federal Medical Centre at the address below
LOCATION P.M.B. 1008, Sani Abacha Way, Gusau, Zamfara State
Federal Medical Centre, Ido Ekiti state
Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido-Ekiti is a Federal Government-owned foremost, cutting edge, primary, secondary and tertiary health service provider and clinical training institution in Nigeria.
The hospital, which is one of the fastest-growing teaching hospitals in the country was established in 1998 by the Federal Government to provide affordable, qualitative and accessible medicare to every state of the federation, particularly to the people living in the grass root of Ekiti State and its environment.
At inception in 1999, the Hospital had six departments and currently twenty-two clinical and four non-clinical departments.
LOCATION Ifaki-Ido Rd, 371101, Ido Ekiti
CONTACT 0806 526 6109
Federal Medical Centre, Katsina, Katsina State
Following the Federal Government’s policy to establish a tertiary Health Institution in each state, Katsina State Government released the structure and vast land of 546.182 acres to Federal Government for the purpose in 1996. Clinical activities started at Federal Medical Centre, Katsina in 1998.
LOCATION Murtala Muhammad Way,(Jibia Bypass)P.M.B 2121 Katsina, Nigeria
CONTACT [email protected], +2348069299979
Federal Medical Centre, Keffi, Nasarawa State
Federal Medical Center Keffi came into being in April 2000 on the facility of the old general hospital keffi built-in 1957 by the Premier of the defunct Northern Region; Late Sir Ahmadu Bello Sardaunan Sokoto.
This Development – i.e. the takeover, was sequel to a pronouncement by President Olusegun Obasanjo the previous year, 1999, shortly after assuming office as the democratically elected president.
He announced then, that 44 Federal Medical Centers would be established across the country with a view to bringing healthcare delivery services to the people at the grassroots level. FMC Keffi was one of those 44 announced by the President in 1999.
LOCATION Maizobo Street, Keffi
Federal Medical Centre, Nguru, Yobe State
The Federal Medical Centre, Nguru is one of the Federal Tertiary Hospitals in the country, it is a 400 bed Tertiary Hospital located in Yobe State in the North-East of Nigeria and is one of the fastest-growing Federal Medical Centres in the Country.
LOCATION Federal Medical Centre, P.M.B. 02, Nguru -Yobe State.
Federal Medical Centre (Owo), Owo Ondo State
The former general hospital at Owo is owned by the Ondo State. The government was taken over by the Federal Government of Nigerian in 1989.
The Hospital on a Landmass of 58.5 hectares was thereafter upgraded to a Federal Tertiary Health institution of 300 beds and redesignated Federal Medical Centre, Owo. Administrative and Clinical activities commended in the Centre 1993 and 1994 respectively.
This Centre like other Federal Medical Centre is expected to perform the function of Federal University Teaching hospitals, except for the training of medical students. it also renders health services as providing training and researches as may be necessary for the health sector.
LOCATION Adekunle Ajasin Road, Owo, Ondo State, Nigeria
CONTACT [email protected], +234901111111
Federal medical centre Umuahia
The Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia came into existence in November 1991. It metamorphosed from the queen Elizabeth Hospital which was commissioned on March 24, 1956, by Sir Clement representing Queen Elizabeth the Second of England.
It started as a joint mission hospital administered by the Methodist, Anglican and Presbyterian churches.
Before its takeover by the Federal Government, it had first been taken over from the missions by the then Imo State Government under the then Military Governor – Navy Captain Godwin Ndubuisi Kanu (now A retired rear Admiral). It was renamed Ramat Specialist Hospital in honour of the late slain Head of State, General Murtala Ramat Mohammed.
The hospital covers an area of 77 acres of land bounded on the south by the Nigerian prisons, Umuahia; east by Ndume Ibeku; North by Umuahia urban and west by Afara clan.
LOCATION Aba Rd, opposite Guaranty Trust Bank, Umu Obasi, Umuahia
CONTACT 0706 933 7998
Federal Medical Centre, Bayelsa State
The Yenagoa General Hospital, established in 1957 during the colonial era, was converted into a specialist hospital in 1996, after the creation of Bayelsa State. On 9th September 1999, the same hospital was taken over by the Federal Ministry of Health and re-named Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa.
In 2014, the Otuoke Cottage Hospital established under the auspices of the MDGs was taken over by the Federal Ministry of Health following a Presidential Mandate and handed over to become Federal Medical Centre Yenagoa Outreach Hospital in Ogbia L.G.A.
Today, the hospital is best described as Federal Medical Centre, Bayelsa State. Dr. (now Prof.) Kobina Keme-Ebi Imananagha, Chief Consultant Physician/Neurologist, a former head of the Department of Medicine, University of Calabar and a pioneer Honourable Commissioner for Health, Bayelsa State, was appointed in 1999 as the pioneer Medical Director of the young hospital.
LOCATION Hospital Road, Ovom, Yenagoa, Bayelsa, Nigeria
CONTACT [email protected], +234 906 000 1156
Federal Medical Centre, Adamawa State
The Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria was established through an agreement dated 21st August 1998 signed between the Federal Ministry of Health, Nigeria and Adamawa State Government to take over the then Yola Specialist Hospital, Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria. Clinical Services commenced on 15th May 1999. This health institution makes the list of federal hospitals in Nigeria.
However, the then Civilian Government in the State decided to repossess the Specialist Hospital so that it could have a secondary healthcare facility in the state capital. Thus, it was decided that the Centre should be relocated to the present site on the premises of the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Yola, along Lamido Zubairu Way, Yola-Town.
It is a 330-bed hospital that provides tertiary healthcare services to people from Adamawa, parts of Taraba, Gombe and Borno states in addition to those coming from the neighbouring republic of Cameroun.
Within the limits of available resources, the facility has been able to provide a high standard of healthcare to its teeming clients.
In fact, with the ongoing insurgency in Northeastern Nigeria, all the casualties of our armed forces personnel and civilians are promptly and adequately catered for in the centre.
The Federal Medical Centre, Yola covers an initial total landmass of 23.84 hectares and in 2016 His excellency the Adamawa state Governor gave us an additional land of 15.75 hectares from the neighbouring Technical College making a total of 39.59 hectares.
The first Medical Director was Dr. Aminu Muhammad Mai who administered the Centre from its inception in 1999 to 2007. In 2007, Dr. Ali Danburam was appointed the Medical Director. His tenure came to an end in March 2015. I took over as Medical Director on 1st April 2015.
LOCATION Lamido Zubairu Road, P.M.B. 2017, Yola Bye-Pass, Yola-Town, Yola South, Adamawa State, Nigeria
CONTACT [email protected], +2348036255557
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