Buhari Appoints Medical Directors for Neuro-psychiatric Hospital in Calabar, and FMC, Jalingo

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Medical Directors for Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Calabar, Cross River State, and Federal Medical Centre, Jalingo, Taraba State.

A release by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, named the new medical directors as: Dr. Bassey Eyo Edet, and Dr. Aisha Shehu Adamu respectively.

Dr. Edet hails from Akpabuyo Local Government Area of Cross River State, and graduated from University of Calabar in 1998. He is a Fellow of the National Postgraduate Medical College in Psychiatry, and also Fellow of the National Institute of Management Consultants.

His appointment as Medical Director, for an initial term of four years, takes effect from March 25, 2020.

Dr Aisha Shehu Adamu is a Consultant Physician Gastroenterologist/Hepatologist. She hails from Karin-Lamido Local Government Area of Taraba State, and graduated from the University of Maiduguri in 1995.  She completed her Residency in 2008, and received Fellowship of the National Postgraduate Medical College.

Like Edet’s, her appointment as Medical Director is also for an initial term of four years and it takes effect from March 25, 2020.