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Dr. Godwin Eni, a well-known and respected African-Canadian international health specialist and consultant has arrived in Sierra Leone to begin an eight-month collaboration with the country’s Ministry of Health. He will help to develop and implement strategies to improve national health care delivery.
This is Dr. Eni’s second trip to Sierra Leone. He spent a couple of months last year in Bo district, southern Sierra Leone, during which he worked with medical professionals in the district and with mayor of Bo to identify and help solve health care delivery problems in that part of the country. He also met with resident minister Moijue Kai-Kai.
This time Dr. Eni will be based in the capital, Freetown, from where he will be visiting the various districts. He will be liaising with Health minister Zainab Bangura, the Chief Medical Officer and other senior health professionals in the capital.
Originally from Eastern Nigeria, Dr. Eni, a personal friend and mentor of PV publisher Gibril Koroma, has always stressed the need for African professionals in the diaspora to find ways to use their expertise to help the continent.
"We Africans have to develop Africa. Nobody else would do it for us. I don’t consider myself a Nigerian although I am from Nigeria. I consider myself an African," he is always fond of saying.
Dr. Eni, a former professor at the University of British Columbia Medical School, has also made several similar trips to his native country and to various other countries around the world (on a volunteer basis), with funding mostly from Western agencies since his retirement from active teaching at UBC.
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