The Anambra State Primary Healthcare Development Agency (ASPHCDA), has won two prestigious awards at the National Primary Healthcare Leadership Challenge. The agency, ably led by its Executive Secretary, Pharm Chisom Uchem, clinched a total of $1.2 million cheque at the award ceremony last Thursday.
The award, which was hosted by the Executive Governor of Kwara State, Alhaji AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, was an event dedicated to celebrating transformative leadership and excellence in primary healthcare.
The Primary Healthcare Leadership Challenge aims to enhance Governors’ commitment to human capital development and primary healthcare, mobilise state resources, promote accountability, and foster innovation for gender-specific health outcomes.
Anambra State’s exceptional accomplishment was not only rewarded with the southeast zone award, which fetched the agency a cheque of $500,000, but also went beyond that to emerge the overall best agency, with a prize money of $700,000, which brought the total prize money of the agency to $1,200,000.
The Anambra Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo who received the award himself at the occasion, was accompanied by the Commissioner, State Ministry of Health (SMOH), Dr Afam Obidike, Commissioner, State Ministry of Budget and Economic Planning, Mrs Chiamaka Nnake, and the Managing Director, Anambra State Health Insurance Agency (ASHIA), Dr Simeon Onyemaechi.
The President, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) Pharm, Tanko Ayuba and pharmacists across the country have extended their heartwarming congratulations to Pharm. Chisom, on her outstanding performance in making the Pharmacy profession and Anambra State proud.
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