Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has sworn in the new Commissioner for Health, Dr Emmanuel Obi.
It would be recalled that the former Health commissioner in the state, Prof. Anthony Ugochukwu died on April 3 following a kidney disease.
Ugwuanyi said that the choice of Obi followed the need to re-engineer the healthcare system in the state.
The governor said that the outbreak of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) disease had made such move and the urgent replacement of a health commissioner more compelling.
He said that the State Assembly had earlier confirmed the appointment of Obi in view of the prevailing circumstance.
Ugwuanyi charged the health commissioner to bring his expertise to bear on his new job.
Responding, Obi thanked the governor for the honour to serve the state as a commissioner.
He assured the governor of his willingness to discharge his duties with diligence.
Obi, an associate professor, was until the appointment a Consultant and Public Health Physician at University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Enugu.
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He was also a lecturer at College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Ituku Ozalla, Enugu
Anaedoonline.com reported the government and people of Enugu state in the early hours of today received the shocking news of the demise Prof Anthony Ugochukwu, the Enugu State Commissioner for Health Enugu.
Ugochukwu, died at the early hours of today, Saturday, 4th April, at Memfys Hospital Enugu.
Though the details of his death is still sketchy, report has it that the late commissioner has been battling an undisclosed illment.
Before his death, Prof. Ugochukwu was a renounced surgeon and a lecturer at Enugu State University of Science and Technology.
The late commissioner recently in his speech at the flagging off of the de-worming programme for pupils in public primary schools in the state, organized by the National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme, in collaboration with the state government, hailed the wife of Enugu State Governor, Mrs. Monica Ugochi Ugwuanyi describing her as a role model and mentor to many.
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