Borno state governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum has approved the appointment of Professor Mohammed Arab Alhaji as the new Chief Medical Director for Borno State Hospitals Management Board, while the outgoing CMD, Dr. Muhammad Aminu Ghuluze has been appointed a Permanent Secretary and will to be deployed after swearing in.
Zulum’s spokesman, Malam Isa Gusau, who announced the changes in a statement released on Monday night, also said the governor appointed Dr. Aliyu Mailafiya to act as Executive Director of the State Primary Healthcare Development Agency (SPHCDA). He is to take over from Dr. Sule Mele.
The statement noted that the appointments are with immediate effect.
Arab, who is coming in as the new CMD is a 57-year old medical professor with specialty in pediatrics, gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition. He runs the paediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition/infectious diseases specialist clinics at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH).
He is an Honourary Consultant Paediatrician at the UMTH, and a locum (backup) consultant at Borno state Specialist Hospital Maiduguri, and Visiting Consultant to General Sani Abacha Hospital, Damaturu, Yobe state among others.
He has discharged numerous administrative responsibilities relating to healthcare services at the UMTH and College of medical sciences at UNIMAID.
