Health · Nigeria
Register a private hospital / clinic
License a private medical facility: incorporate with qualified staff → meet MDCN facility standards → apply to the State health facility agency → inspection & licence.
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Who you will deal with
The steps
- Incorporate and engage qualified staff
- CAC / MDCN / NMCN
- Incorporate the facility. A private clinic needs a Medical Practitioner in-charge (Operating Officer) and a Registered Nurse/Midwife, all registered to practise in Nigeria (MDCN/NMCN).
- Certificate of Incorporation; practitioner & nurse registrations
- Setup
- Meet MDCN facility standards
- Medical & Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN)
- Provide facilities to MDCN standards: consulting rooms (~4x3 m) with couches and wash-basins, treatment/dispensing rooms, toilets with water closets, oxygen and suction, and waste management.
- Equipped premises meeting standards
- Setup
- Apply to the State health facility agency
- State Ministry of Health / facility agency (e.g. Lagos HEFAMAA)
- Apply for registration and accreditation with the state health facility monitoring/accreditation agency (in addition to federal requirements).
- Application; company & staff documents; facility details
- Application stage
- Inspection and licence
- State health facility agency / MDCN
- The facility is inspected and documentation reviewed; on compliance it is registered/licensed. Typically 3-6 months.
- Facility inspection
- ~3-6 months
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