Medical Officer

Abubakar Umar

Ministry of Health, Gombe State, Nigeria • *************@*****.*** • (+234) 080********

Objective: To apply my clinical and managerial experiences to ending maternal mortality and child malnutrition

Experience

Infectious Disease Hospital, Zambuk Yamaltu-Deba, Gombe, Gombe State, Nigeria

Senior Medical Officer November 2018 – Present

Attend to 40+ patients per day, a majority of whom face life-threatening infectious diseases such as malaria, malnutrition, tuberculosis, HIV, hepatitis, and leprosy

Manage a staff of thirty nurses and twenty sub-staff, ensuring effective treatment of patients, discharge of patients where it is appropriate, and scheduling of follow-ups where it is necessary

Perform 20+ surgeries per month, with the most common procedures being caesarean sections, appendectomies, herniorrhaphies, and hydrocelectomies

Write grant proposals to address funding bottlenecks and ensure that every patient receives treatment, whether or not they can afford to pay for it

Collaborate with the Geneva-based Stop TB Campaign, screening and treating patients for tuberculosis and sending quarterly data reports.

State Specialist Hospital Gombe, Gombe State, Nigeria

Medical Officer April 2018 – October 2018

Attended to 20+ patients per day in the gynecology and obstetrics clinic, booked patients for surgeries and performed them

Performed 30+ surgeries per month, with the most common procedures being caesarean sections, salphingectomies for ectopic pregnancies, csytectomies, myomectomies and hysterectomies

Presented detailed analysis of 5 cases of child mortality and maternal mortality at the hospital’s monthly mortality review

Organized trainings and clinical reviews for medical staff on the topics of safe abortion, instrumental deliveries, and toxemia of pregnancy

Nigerian Army: 73rd Battalion Kano, Nigeria Medical Officer May 2017 – April 2018

Attended to 60+ patients per day, with cases ranging across trauma, infectious disease, metabolic disease, and cerebrovascular accidents

Managed holistic patient care, conducted relevant paperwork and referred patients to specialists where necessary

Conducted 20+ deliveries per month, performed episiotomies, episorrhaphies, and cervical repair where necessary

Education

University of Maiduguri Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria MBBS: Medicine and Surgery 2008 – 2015

Coursework: Internal Medicine, Surgery, Pathology, Medical Microbiology, Clinical Pharmacology, Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Biostatistics, Public Health, Human Anatomy, Human Physiology

Additional Coursework

Fundamentals of Project Management (University of California – Berkeley, Haas School of Business)

Planning for Monitoring and Evaluation (University of California – Berkeley, Haas School of Business)

Project Management for Global Health (University of Washington, School of Public Health)

Language: English (fluent), Hausa (fluent), Fulani (native), Quranic Arabic (intermediate)

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