Borno state Governor, Babagana Zulum has approved the appointment of Professor Mohammed Arab Alhaji as Executive Director of Borno State Primary Healthcare
The appointment which is with immediate effect, was announced by Governor Zulum’s spokesman, Malam Isa Gusau, in a statement issued on Wednesday.
59-year-old Professor Arab had served as Borno’s commissioner of health from July 2022 to May 2023. He previously served as Chief Medical Director of Borno State’s Hospital Management Board from September 2020 to July 2022. Professor Arab is a medical doctor specialized in pediatrics, gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition.
The Professor was an Honourary Consultant Paediatrician at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, a backup consultant at Borno State Specialist hospital in Maiduguri, and visiting consultant to General Sani Abacha hospital in Damaturu, Yobe. As an academic, Professor Arab authored and co-authored about 50 local and international academic publications as at 2020, and he mentored dozens of medical doctors.
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