President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of new Chief Medical Directors (CMDs) and Medical Directors for eleven federal health institutions in the country.
OsunDailyNG reports that the Director of Press and Public Relations in the Federal Ministry of Health, Patricia Deworitshe, made this known in a statement on Friday in Abuja.
Deworitshe said the appointments were for an initial four-year tenure with effect from August 1, and the letters of appointment were presented to them at the ministry’s headquarters in Abuja by the Permanent Secretary, Kachollom Daju.
She said the Perm Sec. enjoined the new heads to bring the skills and wealth of experience they acquired over the years to bear in their various facilities, noting that their performance would determine the renewal of their tenure.
The new CMDs were Prof Nyandanti Yakub Wilberforce (FMC Hong, Adamawa); Prof Issa Baba Awoye (Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Buddo-Egba, Kwara); Dr Umar Faruk Abdumajid (FMC Daura, Katsina); and Dr Muhammad Shittu Adamu (FMC, Wase, Plateau); Prof Shuaibu Jauro Yahya (FMC, Mubi, Adamawa);
Others are Dr Mercy Anugwu (FMC Onitsha, Anambra); Prof Auwalu Sani Salihu (Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Dawanau Kano); Prof Rufai Ahmed (Registrar/CEO, Medical Rehabilitation Therapists Board of Nigeria-MRTB); Prof Mangwa J. Kortar (FMC, Makurdi, Benue); Prof Robinson Chukwudi Onoh (Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, Ebonyi) and Dr Nurudeen Isa (National Orthopaedic Hospital, Dala, Kano).
