FG Appoints 11 New CMDs for Federal Medical Centres
Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja
The federal government has appointed 11 new medical directors for the Federal Medical facilities in the country.
The new CMDs that were appointed were: Prof. Nyandanti Yakub Wilberforce (FMC, Hong, Adamawa State); Prof. Issa Baba Awoye (Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Buddo-Egba, Kwara State), Dr. Umar Faruk Abdumajid (FMC Daura, Katsina State), Dr. Muhammad Shittu Adamu, (FMC, Wase, Plateau), Prof Shuaibu Jauro Yahya (FMC, Mubi, Adamawa State,) Dr. Mercy Anugwu (FMC, Onitsha, Anambra State), Prof. Auwalu Sani Salihu (FNPH Dawanau Kano State), and Prof. Rufai Ahmed (Registrar/ CEO, Medical Rehabilitation Therapists Board of Nigeria).
Others include Prof. Mangwa J. Kortar (FMC, Makurdi, Benue State), Prof. Robinson Chukwudi Onoh (Alex Ekwueme, Federal University Teaching Hospital, Abakiliki, Ebonyi State), Dr. Nurudeen Isa (National Orthopaedic Hospital, Dala, Kano State)
A statement by the Director (Press & Public Relations) in the Federal Ministry of Health, Patricia Deworitshe, stated that the new Medical Directors received their appointment letters from the Permanent Secretary, Kachollom Daju, for an initial four-year tenure with effect from August 1, 2023.
Daju charged the new CMDs to work together with the health workers and stakeholders as a team and explore all necessary avenues to provide a conducive work environment and infrastructure aimed at achieving high standard health care.
According to her, “it may be challenging but there is no challenge that is unsurmountable and your appointment is an indication of the confidence that federal government reposed on you.”
She enjoined them to bring their skill and wealth of experience they acquired over the years to bear in their various health facilities noting that their performance would determine the renewal of their tenure.
Daju assured that the Ministry would provide necessary support with the available resources to enable them meet the hospital standard, adding that the Ministry would organise induction training to the newly appointed MDs soon.
In response, on behalf of the newly appointed MDs,
Dr. Mercy Anugwu, expressed appreciation to the President and the Ministry for finding them worthy of the appointment assuring that they will not disappoint.
“We will do our best to improve the lot of our people, to justify the confidence reposed in us by the President and the Ministry, we will put in what it takes to move the health care system in our facilities going forward, we will not rest, we will move along with the vision of Mr. President and make sure that our people receive the best, we will not disappoint you.”
