Governor Babagana Zulum has approved the appointment of Professor Mohammed Arab Alhaji as executive director of Borno State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, SPHCDA.
The appointment, which is with immediate effect, was announced by Governor Zulum’s spokesman, Malam Isa Gusau, in a statement issued on Wednesday morning.
Arab, 59, had served as Borno’s commissioner of health from July 2022 to May 2023.
He had also served as chief medical director of Borno State’s Hospital Management Board from September 2020 to July 2022.
Arab is a medical doctor with specialization in pediatrics, gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition.
The professor was an honorary consultant paediatrician at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, a locum (backup) consultant at Borno State Specialist hospital in Maiduguri, and visiting consultant to General Sani Abacha hospital in Damaturu, Yobe State.
Arab had managed University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital’s Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition / Infectious diseases specialist clinics.
He had worked as a resident doctor in Ibadan and Kaduna.
