Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has inaugurated a nine-man Governing Board headed by Prof Wole Atoyebi to oversee the running of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital (LAUTTH) in Osogbo. Members of the Board are: Dr. Kayode Akinlade, Dr. Ademola Akintolu Onifade, Oba Dr. Folorunso Agboade Makanju Olaniyan, Acting Chief Medical Director LAUTECH, Prof. Akeem Lasisi, Permanent Secretary Osun Ministry of Health, Dr. Temitope Olalekan Oladele. Others are the Chairman of the Osun branch of the Nigeria Medical Association, Dr. Surajudeen Ogunyemi, Provost, College of Medicine, LAUTECH, Prof. Samuel Sunday Taiwo, and Chairman, Medical Advisory Committee, Dr. Daniel Adebode Adekanle.

 

The governor while inaugurating the Board at the EXCO lounge of the Governor’s Office in Abeere, Osogbo stated that the Board was inaugurated at a time public finance was at its lowest point on the grounds of the nation’s dwindling oil price and uncertainties at the global economy. He however tasked the Board to be steadfast for the task of running the institution as a world class without passing undue burden on patients, insisting that members would be required to think for the hospital with a view to making it a centre of medical excellence by national and global standards.