We Have Created More Departments For Employment – FMC

By Raymond Osho

ABEOKUTA – The Chief Medical Director, Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Abeokuta, Ogun State, Prof. Adewale Musa Olomu, on Thursday, August 6, 2020 ascribed the current unemployment rate to existing poor infrastructure in the country.

Olomu who made this known when he hosted Journalists at the health facility, regretted that the country produces more graduates, but the existing infrastructure cannot accommodate them for employment.

In a bid to reduce the unemployment problem to the barest minimum, he stressed that the Medical Centre had created more departments to employ more people.

“We are producing more graduates in this country, but the existing infrastructure cannot accommodate people for employment. But we on our own part have created more department to employ people”, he said.

The Medical Director who equally hosted the Abeokuta South chapter of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) was decorated with an “Award of Excellence” by the youths for his impressive performance at the specialist hospital in the last three years.

In confering the honour on the Chief Medical Director, the organisation said it was moved by the achievements of Prof. Olomu at the hospital, citing the telemedicine building, resuscitated theatres mong others.
In his response, the Professor of Medicine lauded the youth for singling him out for honour.

Attributing his success in life to providence, Prof.Olomu recalled his modest background, saying he was a child of a peasant farmer, stressing the matter was compounded when he lost his father early in life.
Olomu said that going to school was “extremely difficult,” noting probably he would have ended up not proceeding beyond primary school !level, if he had not won the then Western Region of Nigeria Scholarship.

He pledged to remember the youths in Abeokuta South and the state in general, adding he would give back to the society out of the abundance given him from God.