Soludo appoints new CMD for Ojukwu varsity instructing hospital

Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has accepted the appointment of Dr Maureen Umeakuewulu as the brand new Chief Medical Director of the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu College Educating Hospital, Amaku, Anambra State.

In keeping with an announcement issued by the governor’s Press Secretary, Christian Aburime, on Friday, the appointment takes impact instantly.

The assertion learn, “The Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has accepted the appointment of Dr Maureen Umeakuewulu as the brand new Chief Medical Director of the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu College Educating Hospital, Amaku, Anambra State.

“Umeakuewulu is a distinguished Nigerian doctor and Senior Advisor Obstetrician and Gynaecologist with a particular give attention to gynaecologic oncology and ladies’s well being on the Nationwide Hospital, Abuja.

“She brings a wealth of scientific experience and expertise, having served on the Nationwide Hospital, Abuja, the place she has made important contributions to healthcare supply in Nigeria.

“Umeakuewulu is a Fellow of the West African School of Surgeons, the Nationwide Postgraduate Medical School of Nigeria, and the Worldwide School of Surgeons.”

Umeakuewulu is a marketing consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist on the Nationwide Hospital, Abuja, with an expert give attention to girls’s reproductive well being and gynaecologic oncology. She has been concerned in analysis and public advocacy on cervical most cancers prevention, human papillomavirus vaccination and different women-centred well being points.

She has additionally performed management roles inside the Medical Girls’s Affiliation of Nigeria, the place she served as President of the Federal Capital Territory chapter, advocating elevated consciousness and entry to screening and therapy for illnesses affecting girls, together with breast and cervical most cancers.

Past hospital follow, Umeakuewulu has been lively in neighborhood well being interventions by way of initiatives such because the Dona-Maureen Foundation, which has organised medical outreach programmes offering free healthcare companies to underserved communities in Anambra State.

Her work has targeted on enhancing entry to reproductive healthcare, selling early detection of cancers affecting girls and strengthening neighborhood well being training on gender-based violence and dangerous cultural practices.