With effect starting on Tuesday, June 20, 2023, the Federal Ministry of Health has confirmed Prof. Olayinka Oladiran Adegbenhigbe’s appointment as Acting Chief Medical Director of the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, Ile- Ife.
Kemi Fasooto, the hospital’s public relations officer, said this in a statement made accessible in Osogbo late on Friday.
Fasooto cited a letter from the Director of Human Resources Management that stated the appointment was for a six-month term during which the Ministry will begin and complete all procedures for the appointment of a substantive Chief Medical Director.
The statement said Adegbenhigbe, a Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, President, Paediatric Orthopaedic Society of Nigeria, is also the first black African member of the Medical Advisory Board of Ponseti International Association, United States of America.
It further read in parts, “He coordinated the first Ponseti International Clubfoot Workshop in West Africa and translated the manual ‘Clubfoot: Ponseti Management’ to Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa languages for use in Nigeria.
“Through him, Nigeria became the first country globally that produced and adopted national clinical guidelines on Clubfoot treatment. He has added two terminologies into the medical encyclopedias- ophthofall and Exposed Bone Syndrome.
“All members of staff and the entire public are implored to kindly support and cooperate with him on this new assignment.”