The Director Food and Drug Services, Federal Ministry of Health, Pharmacist Gloria O. Chukwumah has bagged the outstanding achievement award tagged ‘’Africa Women in Supply Chain Leadership’’.
Pharmacist Gloria was reputed for her extra ordinary passion and drive for results, relentlessly worked for the advancement of Pharmaceutical services in the Public Health sector at both Federal and State levels. She pioneered the establishment of the procurement and supply management department in the National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP) in 2007.
She founded the National Coordinator of the National Product Supply Chain Management Programme (NPSCMP) with the mandate to coordinate all activities related to the supply management of public health activities and other health products.
Gloria was also the first National Coordinator of the Nigeria Supply Chain Integration Project (NSCIP), the first largest global project to integrate parallel PSM programmes to improve effectiveness and value for money.
As the current Director of Food and Drug Services, Gloria with her doggedness and exemplary leadership style, pushed the frontiers of Pharmaceutical Services beyond the usual boundaries while attracting a host of foreign Donors and Partners to support Nigeria and for the first time also, the Department of Food and Drug Services developed two milestone policies ; National Quality Assurance Policy and the National Supply Chain Policy both of which have been approved by the National Council on Health.
The Honourable Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewolehowever congratulated the awardee describing her as an outstanding person, a go-getter, formidable manager, very aggressive and unrelenting in her efforts to achieve her target adding that her leadership style has led to the improvement in the supply chain management in the country.
Mrs. Pamela Steele, the Chief Executive Officer of Pamela Steele Associates United Kingdom who presented the award to her in Abuja, said Pharmacist Gloria Chukwumah was penciled down for the award following her nomination by 50 supply chain experts working across Africa.
Pamela Steele Associates (PSA) is a United Kingdom based strategic consulting, research and training company dedicated to improving supply chain management within the health and humanitarian sectors in developing countries. It provides solutions to build in-country capacity at individual and organizational levels to reduce dependency on external support.
Currently PSA is working in Kaduna State and has transformed Kaduna State health supply chain; it has equipped the Kaduna state supply chain management team in selected pilot facilities at 23 Primary Healthcare Centers and 15 secondary level hospitals, Director of Media, Mrs. Boade Akinola, said in a statement.
