Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has given his approval for 34 resident physicians to be hired for residency training for a set period of seven years.  

The FCT Minister authorised the employment of 60 medical residency trainees in eight faculties/specialties at the FCTA Hospitals, of which the 34 physicians were the first group.  

The job would improve health care delivery in the FCT, according to a statement released on Wednesday by Lere Olayinka, Senior Special Assistant to the FCT Minister on Public Communications and Social Media.

He said: “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 34 employed, five were in the 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”.

According to Olayinka, the FCTA Civil Service Commission will shortly start the hiring process for the final 26 resident physicians.  

According to him, the 26 comprise eight in general surgery, five in anaesthesiology, eight in paediatrics, four in internal medicine, and one in psychiatry.

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