Members of the Planning Implementation Committee (PIC) for the Establishment of the proposed University of Medicine and Medical Sciences have postulated that the Federal Medical Centre , Idi Aba, Abeokuta would have suffered twenty years retrogression if Medical Director, Prof Adewale Musa-Olomu was denied the second term chance.

The remark was made when the Committee paid a Congratulatory visit to the Medical Director.

Led by its Chairman and former Vice Chancellor of FUNAAB, Prof Olaiya Balogun, the  high Egba Chief noted that the Centre had gone through "trauma arising from self inflicted injury"

He therefore urged the hospital community to close ranks and henceforth work as a united family in the interest of the Centre.

The PIC Chairman commended the Medical Director for the monumental achievements recorded in his first term

" I cannot see any first generation public hospital that will push this Centre aside. It is not an exaggeration that FMC Abeokuta is more than a Teaching Hospital", he noted.

On the proposed University of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Prof Balogun said history will judge Prof Musa-Olomu " positively because it is very rare for an individual to conceptualize the idea of   transiting  an FMC  into a teaching hospital and vigorously pursuing the vision"

Prof Balogun noted with delight that  the Committee was already "approaching the end of the tunnel" in getting the  university established.

Responding, the Medical Director said he saw the three months  that he was out of office as " moments of trials from God" promising to play the role of a "father" at restoring lasting peace into the Centre.

He thanked his guests which included the former CMD of Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Prof Alausa for their deep interest in the progress of the Centre.