The Acting President, Yemi
Osinbajo, has approved the appointment of 14 Chief Medical Directors and
Medical Directors in Federal Teaching Hospitals, Federal Medical Centres and
Specialty Hospitals all over the country.
The approval was disclosed in a
letter signed by the Deputy Chief of Staff to the Acting President and
addressed to the Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole.
The press statement noted that
the appointments take immediate effect for a four-year tenure and are in two
categories.
Five of the appointees will be
serving their second and final term.
Some institutions in the country
have been under interim heads for between six months to two years, against the
provision of the Acts that established them.
The Health Minister in his
congratulatory message to the appointees, charged them to reciprocate the
Federal Government’s gesture by taking their appointment as a call to service.
They were also advised to ensure
that they operate an all-inclusive administration that will promote efficiency,
transparency and accountability.
Adewole stated further that the
Chief Executive Officers were to support the current health agenda of President
Muhammadu Buhari’s Administration which is aimed at achieving universal health
coverage.
The new chief executive officers
and their health facilities are:
- Bisala Ekele — University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada;
- V.A. Osiatuma — Federal Medical Centre, Asaba;
- Idris Suleiman –Federal Medical Centre, Birnin Kudu;
- Abdus Musa — Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta;
- O.O. Alabi — Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja;
- Adejuwon Dada — Federal Medical Centre, Ebute-Metta, Lagos;
- Ibrahim Wakawa — Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Maiduguri;
- O.C. Ogun — Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Lagos and
- Shehu Sale — Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Sokoto.
Five of them will be serving
their second tenure and they include,
- Z. Mohammed — Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano;
- Igwegbe — Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, Nnewi;
- Wiza Inusa — Federal Medical Centre, Jalingo;
- Joseph Okegbe — Federal Psychiatric Hospital, Calabar
- Sunday Olotu — Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Uselu, Benin-City.
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ReplyDeleteNawaoo for you oo. So even if the tenure of the chief medical directors in the federal medical centers, teaching hospitals, federal neuropsychiatric hospitals in the south east does not expire, you want the government to appoint new ones for them abii??
DeleteNawaoo for you oo. So even if the tenure of the chief medical directors in the federal medical centers, teaching hospitals, federal neuropsychiatric hospitals in the south east does not expire, you want the government to appoint new ones for them abii??
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