Improved incentives for medical doctors will reduce ‘Japa’ syndrome — Outgoing FMC MD

The outgoing Medical Director, Federal Medical Center, Abeokuta, Professor Adewale Musa-Olomu, has appealed to the federal government to improve on incentives for medical doctors and other health personnel to reduce the “Japa” syndrome.

Musa-Olomu made this appeal while presenting his scorecard having served in the capacity in the last eight years that the measure would reduce the rate at which doctors left the country for greener pastures.

The outgoing MD who hailed President Bola Tinubu’s massive investment in the health sector would bow out of office on May 31st.

“I want to commend President Bola Tinubu. The renewed Hope Agenda is superb, excellent, he has invested so much in the health sector.

“He specifically directed the legislators when they are preparing the budget that no kobo should be removed from the budget of the health tertiary institutions in the country and they obeyed the president.

“He also gave the legislators the freedom to bring there constituency projects to tertiary health institutions and this has really helped us in putting more infrastructure in place,” he said.

He appreciated former President Muhammadu Buhari for the approval given to FMC to operate a University.

“We appreciate him for the approval given to our university to exist and also commended President Bola Tinubu for seeing to the take off.

“We really believed in the renewed Hope Agenda of the President and we will continue to pursue it ; Appreciated the Gov Dapo Abiodun for peaceful environment,” he said.

He noted that the health institution under his leadership performed more than 40 per cent of Open Heart Surgeries in Nigeria.

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