IN THE SPOTLIGHT AROUND THE WORLD - OBIAKOR LOVELYN CHIAMAKA

Obiakor Lovelyn Chiamaka is a pharmacist, currently observing doing her one-year internship with National Hospital Abuja. Lovelyn is passionate about promoting quality

healthcare in Nigeria and this she has shown through her numerous volunteerism, community services in rural communities and health awareness campaigns. Lovelyn is a chevron scholar, former president Barrack Obama’s young Africa leadership initiative (YALI) alumni and also the Nigerian student leadership fellow by rise networks. Lovelyn won the 2016 Merck hypertension award winner in Africa and was offered scholarship to take a one year online PGD course on preventative cardiovascular medicine in the University of South wales UK.

Lovelyn is a believer of professionalism in discharging one’s duties, a result oriented, team player and she loves networking. She is currently interning with Health News Nigeria, an online media platform that promotes quality health.

Her greatest challenge is having to strive in this African environment where women are not giving the favourable platform to strive.

In the next five years, she sees herself conquering her fears and limitations, sees someone who have made tremendous impact in the society through health sector, someone who will take everyone by surprise by mounting leadership positions in Nigeria and a mother who will raise children of integrity

When she is under pressure she maintains utmost calmness and still hold on to professionalism because that’s what she believed in.

Lovelyn is someone who believes in updating her knowledge especially in her profession, so she engages herself in taking so many onsite and online professional course to improve and update her knowledge in order to keep up with latest trend.

The greatest change she want to see in the society is change of mindset and the way people perceive things. She will also want to see a country that will believe in their health professional, health facilities as well as seeing country where healthcare system will be made available to all and sundry, irrespective of status, location and financial strength.

She will like to see a country where our research and development is at its peak and we will be able to produce our own active pharmaceutical ingredient, a situation where medical negligence, malpractice are taken very serious and address, a situation where there is no porosity in the management, control and distribution of drugs thereby blocking out preeminence of fake drugs.

Her mentors are Engr Nzeh Clem's and Rev Livinus Obi

Obiakor Lovelyn Chiamaka is Nigerian and Spotlight in all spheres of life

Obiakor Lovelyn Chiamaka

Abuja, Nigeria