Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, has has approved the immediate recruitment of resident doctors at Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOUTH), Sagamu.
DAILY POST gathered that also to be recruited are nurses, pharmacists, laboratory scientists and all other categories and cadres of healthcare professionals needed at the hospital.
The governor, according to his Chief Press Secretary, Kunle Somorin, had ordered that advertisement should be immediately rolled out to announce recruitment in all departments where manpower shortage exists in OOUTH
Somorin said the recruitment was in line with an interim recommendations submitted by an administrative panel earlier set by up Abiodun to look into the challenges facing the teaching hospital.
DAILY POST learnt that the panel, chaired by the Chief Medical Director of Reddington Hospital, Dr Yemi Onabowale, had advised the government to recruit competent medical doctors to fill all the manpower shortage at the teaching hospital; prompting the recruitment.
The Governor, Somorin disclosed, had frowned at the infrastructural and staff deficits facing OOUTH during a visit to the hospital in June.
Abiodun, it was gathered, promised to restore “past glory” of the tertiary healthcare facility.
