Dr Chioma Ezenyimulu has handed over the reins of power of Anambra State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, ANSPHCDA to the new Executive Secretary, Mrs Chisom Uchem.
This followed the appointment of Mrs Uchem, a pharmacist as the new Executive Secretary of the agency by Governor Chukwuma Soludo last Tuesday.
The brief hand-over ceremony at the agency’s headquarters in Awka and reports that Dr Ezenyimulu was appointed the pioneer Executive Secretary and Chief Executive Officer of the agency on inception in 2015 and completed her two terms of eight years on March 14, 2023.
The primary health care subsector in Anambra State before the creation of the agency in 2015 was one of the worst ranked sectors in the country, rating about seven percent from the National Primary Health Care Development Agency in late 2014.
But with the creation of the agency, appointment of Dr Ezenyimulu and the subsequent reforms initiated under her administration, the primary health care sector grew to become the best in the country, receiving other high rank ratings from local and international partners.
Members of staff of the agency took turns to eulogize Dr Ezenyimulu for her reforms in the agency, in the primary health care subsector in the state and for ensuring that everything that is due gets to the state.
Dr Ezenyimulu who in her valedictory address to members of the agency, described the opportunity to serve the state in that capacity as a rare one, adding that she was privileged to have made impacts and improved the living standards of many.
Dr Ezenyimulu asked the staff members of the agency to give the new chief executive all the support she needed to take the agency to the promised land.
In her acceptance speech, the new executive secretary, Mrs Uchem promised to sustain the legacies of Dr Ezenyimulu and take every step possible to ensure that the Primary Health Care continues to meet its demands to women and children in Anambra State.
The event climaxed with official hand over from Dr Ezenyimulu to Mrs Uchem.
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