By correspondent in Abuja.
Prof.Baba Awoye Issa.
MD,FNH,Budo-Egba, Kwara State.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has confirmed the appointment of Prof. Baba Awoye Issa as the substantive Medical Director, Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Budo-Egba, Kwara State.
This is contained in a letter signed by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Sen. George Akume and copied Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Health, dated August 7, 2023.
Akume, therefore, directed the Ministry to issue a letter of confirmation of the appointment to Baba Issa and 12 others appointed in similar capacities as heads of the various health institutions in the country.
Our correspondent reports that Issa, a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, until his appointment, was the acting Medical Director of the institution.
The Reporters gathered that the health institution is the first of its kind in North Central geopolitical zone of Nigeria, facilitated by the immediate past Kwara Central Senator, Dr. Ibrahim Yahaya Oloriegbe,then head, Senate Committee on Health in the 9th Assembly.
The institution which has begun activities, in line with the purpose of its establishment, was also the first Federal institution to be located in Kwara State since 1992 and one of the very few health institutions established by the immediate past administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Baba Issa hails from Ogbondoroko in Asa Local Government Area of Kwara State and was an academic staff of the University of Ilorin and also a consultant at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital before his secondment to Budo-Egba as the acting MD of the institution on January 1st, 2022.
The new MD,also an erstwhile Chairman, Nigerian Medical Association, Kwara State branch, is a product of GSS, Afon in Kwara State.
Edited by Dada Ahmed.
