JUST IN: DR C-Fine Okorochukwu set to address the United Nations.
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High profile Akalite, medical doctor, administrator, social worker and pro- democracy activist, Dr C-Fine Okorochukwu is among the four individuals selected to address a United Nations panel on this year’s World Health Day which comes up tomorrow Wednesday 14 April 2021. The event which is co-organized by the UN Department of Global Communications, American Medical Women’s Association, Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, and Centre for Public Health will take place via zoom. Time is 2:30 – 4:30 pm Nigerian time.
The UN briefing according to a document made available to Umuaka Times by Dr Okorochukwu, “will examine access to the (covid19) vaccine globally, the mental health toll on health care workers and highlight the urgent need to invest in health workers for shared dividends in health, jobs, economic opportunity, and equity.”
C’fine Okorochukwu is currently a director with the Global NGO Executive Committee and founder of Centre for Public Health in Nigeria. The Centre for Public Health is an organization he started from the University of Nigeria as an undergraduate which was then, a University-based organization. He nurtured it to a national organization that is operating in 24 states out of 36 states in Nigeria. Under his leadership, the Centre for Public Health was granted special consultative status to Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations in 2010 and in 2015, the organization was associated with United Nations- Department of Global Communication (DGC). CPH networked with other civil society organizations CSOs, in forming Global Action Network with 32 members. Umuaka Times observed that Global Action Network is currently a platform to advance the health of women all over the world. Dr. C’fine was the brain behind the formation of End Cervical Cancer program.
Through networking with other organizations, he has trained 200,000 women on cervical cancer, 2300 Women between 25 to 65 years have done their cervical screening. For the first time in Nigeria, he is about vaccinating 5,000 boys and girls between 9 to 14 years. During this COVID-19 pandemic CPH established a telemedicine platform to take care of people with other diseases that were neglected because of COVID 19. They also established a hotline to address the issues of domestic violence that became pandemic.
Other speakers who will also address the UN briefing include Zubair Hasan, an Attending Physician in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at North Shore University Hospital and Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York.
Padmini Murthy, a physician and an activist who trained in Obstetrics and Gynecology. She has practiced medicine and public health for the past 28 years in various countries. She has been working in various arenas of the health care industry including as a consultant for the UNFPA. Her areas of expertise include women’s health, global health diplomacy, health policy and service delivery and health literacy. Dr. Murthy currently serves as the Secretary General of the Medical Women’s International Association (MWIA) and its NGO representative to the United Nations (UN).
Janice Hawkins, a UN Liaison Officer with Sigma Theta Tau International in special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council. She is also a State Leader for the UN Foundation and a retired US Army Nurse.
For registration, please visit: bit.ly/healthbriefing21
