Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has named four heads for major health institutions across Nigeria.
The president appointed Ajayi Adekunle as Chief Medical Director, Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido Ekiti, Ekiti State.
He appointed Henry Ugboma as Chief Medical Director, University of Port-Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Port-Harcourt, Rivers State.
He
appointed T.O. Adebowale as Medical Director, Neuro-Psychiatric, Aro,
Abeakuta, Ogun State and Achigbu Kinsley as Medical Director, Federal
Medical Centre, Owerri, Imo State.
The appointments were disclosed in a press statement issued by the Ministry of Health on Wednesday.
The appointments of the new officials are for a term of four years from December 31, 2017.
The
appointments of heads of these institution come months after a PREMIUM
TIMES report showed that about 20 of Nigeria’s 52 tertiary health
institutions have no CMDs. These institutions had been run by interim
heads for between six months to two years, against the provision of the
Acts that established them.
Out of these 20, Vice President Yemi
Osinbajo, while in acting capacity as the president, had approved
appointment of 14 heads for the tertiary health institutions. The four
announced on Wednesday are also part of the 20.
The Minister of
Health, Isaac Adewole, according to the statement, congratulated the new
appointees and charged them to justify the confidence reposed in them
by the president.