CONCERNED STAFFS OF THE FEDERAL
MINISTRY OF HEALTH
The Presidency
Federal
Republic of Nigeria, FCT.,
Abuja.
VICTIMIZED FOR BEING AN APOSTLE OF CHANGE IN HIS INSTITUTION - A CRY
FOR HELP FOR DR. LAWRENCE
MAJEKODUNMI AYODELE
We are a coalition of professionals and indigenes of Ekiti State and concerned staffers of the Federal Ministry of Health that have been watching with keen interest all the events that have been taking place in Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido-Ekiti since inception. We are therefore making this submission in view of injustice and maltreatment melted to Dr. Lawrence Majekodunmi Ayodele, a- 52- year- old administrator per excellence from Ise-Ekiti, Ekiti State, who was the Chief Medical Directorof the hospital between June 2012 and May 2016. Dr. Ayodele has been ill-treated with a high level of injustice in his bid to make his fatherland better (in line with the ‘change’ crusade of the present Federal Government) by the Hon. Minister of Health,Prof. Isaac Folorunso Adewole and Governor Ayodele Fayose, his adviser. It is our belief that many other civil groups must be wondering what kind of game the Hon. Minister of Health must have been playing in Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido-Ekiti in the last twenty (20) months. Firstly, all thanks to Mr. President and theFederal Republicof Nigeria for appointing Dr. L.M. Ayodele as the Medical Director of FederalMedical Centre, Ido-Ekiti in September, 2012 after serving as acting Medical Director of the same institution between June and August 2012. To the glory of God, at the end of four years, the young man did not disappoint Mr. President and the nation at large going by the way he transformed the hospital to an enviable state in areas of Status, Service Deliveries, Training and Infrastructural Development. Within 2 years of his appointment as Medical Director, he transformed the institution to a Federal Teaching Hospital, the first of its kind in our dear country. Prior to his appointment as the Medical Director, Dr. Ayodele had served as the Head of Clinical Services (2010-2012) and Founder/Head of Psychiatry Department of the same hospital (2004-2010). Though, the hospital had no Mental Health facility prior to his appointment as Consultant Psychiatrist, he started one following his appointment into the hospital in April 2004. The establishment of Mental Health Department brought a new dawn to the hospital. In less than 5 years of starting the department, it became the best in the areas of clinical services, service delivery to patients, manpower development and research. The department was therefore, the first to secure full accreditation from both the National and West African Postgraduate Medical Colleges, for postgraduate training of doctors (Resident Training) in the entire Ekiti and Ondo States. Consequently, the department produced the first set of indigenous consultants (specialists) in the hospital. Before joining the Federal Medical Centre,Ido-Ekiti, Dr. L.M Ayodele had served as a Consultant Psychiatrist at Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Kware, Sokoto, where he was made the Head of Clinical Services till he relocated to Ekiti State in April, 2014 on a lateral transfer. Before then, he had earlier served at Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Calabarand Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Yaba, Lagos ACHIEVEMENTS ASTHE MD/CMD OF FEDERALMEDICAL CENTRE/FEDERAL TEACHING HOSPITAL, IDO-EKITI Following his appointment as the Medical Director of Federal Medical Centre, Ido-Ekiti in the year 2012, his vision and mission centered on bringing POSITIVE CHANGE to the hospital in the areas of staff’s attitude to work, discipline, transparency and accountability, service delivery, training and research, infrastructural development and restoration of peace between the hospital and the host community. With God on his side, all of the aforementioned were evidently achieved within three years in spite of incessant strikes and distractions by the different groups of health workers union. Some of his landmark achievements can be enumerated as follows:1. TRANSFORMATION FROM MEDICAL CENTRE TO TEACHING HOSPITAL: Top on the list of landmark achievements recorded by Dr. Ayodele and his team is the transformation of the hospital from Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido-Ekiti (FETHI) through the unique partnership with Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD) through a Memorandum ofUnderstanding (MoU) that was signed by the ABUAD management and Federal Government of Nigeria, and witnessed by crème-de-la-crème of the society including the clergy, academics, royalty, the judiciary and members of the Legislature and the then Minister of State for Health, Dr. Khaliru Al-Hassan, on November 15, 2014. That was the first time in the country that a Federal Medical Centre would be transformed to a Federal Teaching Hospital and For this to have been possible, the hospital satisfied all the requirements stipulated by the Nigerian University Commission (NUC) and Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) in areas of service delivery, training and research and adequate equipment and
infrastructure. 2. ABOLITION OF CORRUPT PRACTICES: Immediately he assumed office as the Medical Director of the hospital in 2012 he arranged with a commercial bank on the daily collection of treatment tariffs from patients. This was to put an end to the inherited practice of accounts staff that were collecting money directly from patients, thereby pocketing the bulk of their collections through illegal/fake self-printed receipts. 3. ESTABLISHED A PROCUREMENT TEAM: He stopped thepractice of indiscriminate procurements by various head of departments/units and channeled all procurements through the Hospital Procurement Committee in compliance with the due process stipulated in the National Procurement Act. Prior to his ascension to office most procurement done by the head of departments were without LPOs or payment vouchers (PV) and at ridiculously inflated rate 4. He introduced attendance registers to the departments He introduced attendance registers to the departments up and work, making referral an uncommon practice in the hospital, 8. INFRASTRUCTURE: The hospital’s Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) was not spent on consumable and trainings only but utilized to construct some much needed facilities in the hospital through direct labour and supervised by the hospital engineers. This was to support the capital projects funded by the Federal Government. Example of such facility is the 3-floor NHIS building that was constructed with a paltry N30M. The building has 25 clinical rooms/offices and a 100-seater library on the top floor. The library had a Wifi installed. It was the first purpose-built library in the hospital since it was established in 1956. Anothe example of such facility put inplace through the IGR is the 300-seater mini conference hall. 9.
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