The process of appointment of Chief Medical Directors in Nigeria has been faulted by the President of the Nigeria Medical Association(NMA), Prof. Mike Ogirimma.
Ogirimma, who was speaking at the second anniversary of the “Doctors Time Out Family” at Ile-ife, with the topic: Doctors as Heads of Tertiary Health Institutions, Problems and Prospects, said the exclusion of stakeholders in the process of selection and appointment of CMDs was responsible for decadence in the health sector.
“The fact that there are few cases of gross corruption, arrogance, high handedness and recklessness in our leaders, means the procedure for the appointment and checking of CMDs must change.
“Management of all the health centres were better before the politicisation of the procedure for the appointment of the Chief Medical Directors in our hospitals.
” Stakeholders were no more involved in the monitoring and evaluation of the tenure of CMDs, making it impossible for them to be involved in the discipline of the erring administrators,” he said.
The facilitator of the programme, Dr Anthony Chukwunonso Ude, a Radiologist at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, said the the programme was targeted at creating robust interactions among medical practitioners in Nigeria, irrespective of location.
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