Governor Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu, SAN has approved that his Special Adviser on Health, Dr Jibayo Adeyeye takes over the responsibilities of overseeing the Ministry of Health. He has also appointed the Vice Chancellor of the University of Medical Sciences, Ondo, Professor Adesegun Fatusi, as the new Chairman Of the Inter-Ministerial Committee Against COVID-19.
This follows the death of the substantive Commissioner for Health, and Chairman of the COVID-19 Committee, Dr Wahab Adegbenro.
Adegbenro had, suddenly, died of COVID-19 on Thusday, and was buried on Friday.
The Ondo State Government had declared Friday a work free-day in honour of the late Commissioner, and COVID-19 Chairman.
Dr Jibayo, a two term lawmaker at the Lagos State House of Assembly is a product of the College of Medicine, University of Lagos.
Prof. Fatusi is a professor of Community and Public Health and past Provost of the College of Health Sciences at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He has previously served as the Director of the OAU’s Institute of Public Health and worked with the UNFPA as reproductive health advisor. He is the chair of Nigeria’s National Technical Working Group on Adolescent Reproductive Health and Development.
He has also served as the Lead Consultant for the development of Nigeria’s national policy on the health and development of adolescents and young persons, national reproductive health policy, and national policy on HIV/AIDS. He had served previously, on the Ministerial Committee on Health Sector reform as well as on the Board of the National Universities Commission (NUC) of Nigeria.
Ondo State has, in the past few days seen a sharp rise in the number of COVID-19 patients. In a press release signed by Governor Akeredolu’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Ojo Oyewamide, Jibayo’s new roles and those of Adesegun, are with immediate effect.
