‘ Osinbajo
approves appointment of 14 heads of tertiary health institutions (FULL LIST)
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 in Nigeria.
This was
disclosed in an approval letter signed by the Deputy Chief of Staff to the
Acting President and addressed to the Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole.
According to
a press statement by the ministry, 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.
PREMIUM
TIMES had earlier this year reported that about 20 of the 52 tertiary health
institutions in the country have no CMDs. These institutions have been run by
interim heads for between six months to two years, against the provision of the
Acts that established them.
The 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.
He also
advised them to hit the ground running by ensuring that they operate an
all-inclusive administration that will promote efficiency, transparency and
accountability.
Mr. Adewole
stated further that the Chief Executive Officers are to support the current
health agenda of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Administration which is aimed at
achieving universal health coverage.
He also
reminded them that the tertiary facilities should provide leadership for
adjoining secondary and primary health facilities through training and
supervision of healthcare services that are rendered.
He concluded
by cautioning the new appointees that government will monitor their performance
and will not shy away from wielding the big stick should any of them abuse
their office.
The minister
also charged all the professionals in the health sector to support the new
appointees in their health facilities to reposition the sector. He called on
them to note that the success of the new administration is the collective
success of the Nigerian health workers.
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).
The five
that will be serving their second tenure are; A.Z. Mohammed (Aminu Kano
Teaching Hospital, Kano); Anthony Igwegbe (Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching
Hospital, Nnewi); Wiza Inusa (Federal Medical Centre, Jalingo); Joseph Okegbe
(Federal Psychiatric Hospital, Calabar) and Sunday Olotu (Federal
Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Uselu, Benin-City). ’’
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