By Joyce Remi-Babayeju
The FCT Minister Barr Nysome Wike has approved the employment of 34 Resident Doctors for a period of Seven – Years Residency Training to boost health care services in Abuja hospitals.
In a statement issued on Wednesday by Lere Olayinka, Senior Special Assistant to the FCT minister on SocialMedia, the 34 medical doctors are the first batch of the 60 Medical residency Trainees in eight faculties/specialities in the FCTA Hospitals to enhance health-care delivery in the nation’s capital.
The statement read,“This is the first time this is being done outside employees of the Health Management Board, thereby giving doctors more opportunity and bringing more competent hands into healthcare delivery in the FCT.”
“Among the 24 employed, five were psychiatry department, four in Internal Medicine, one in General surgery, one in Anesthesiology, eight in Family Medicine, six in Ophthalmology, and nine in Obstetrics and Gynaecology”
” FCTA Civil Service Commission will commence the process for the recruitment of the remaining 26 Resident Doctors soon.”
21, resident doctors postings include one for the psychiatry department, four in internal medicine, eight in general surgery, five in anesthesiology, and eight Paediatrics.”
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