DR. ROBERT NGOWAH

• Patient Assessment: Conducting comprehensive assessment of critically ill patients, including evaluating their medical history, current symptoms, vital signs, and test results.
• Diagnosis and Treatment: Accurately diagnosing critical illnesses and injuries, and developing and implementing appropriate treatment plans based on evidence-based guidelines and clinical expertise.
• Managing of life support systems: Ensuring proper functioning of life support systems, such as mechanical ventilation, hemodynamic monitoring, and renal replacement therapy.
• Procedures: Performing comfortably procedures including but not limited to rapid sequence intubation, central line catheter, artery line catheter, acute dialysis catheter, chest tube drain, peripheral line, urinary and suprapubic catheterization.
• Patient transfer: Successfully conducting inter-facility transfer of mechanically ventilated patients.
• Collaboration with interdisciplinary team: Working collaboratively with other healthcare professionals, including nurses, respiratory therapists, pharmacists, and other medical specialists, to coordinate patient care.
• Documentation: Accurate and timely documentation of all patient-related information, including assessment findings, treatment plans, and progress notes.
• Patient and Family Education: Providing education to patients and their families regarding patient’s condition, treatment options, and overall plan of care.
• Managing emergency situations: Responding to and managing medical emergencies in ICU and wards, including cardiac arrests, respiratory distress, and sepsis. thereby decreasing mortality by 10%.
• Quality Improvement: Participating in quality improvement initiatives to improve delivery of care in ICU.
• Continuous Learning: Engaging in continuous learning and professional development to stay current with latest advancements in critical care medicine.

• Managed patients in the outpatient (OPD), accident and emergency (A&E) departments and assisting in the critical care (ICU/HDU) department
• Conducted over 100 medical and casualty evacuations of trauma patients in close (North Eastern and Coast Provinces) and deep (Somalia) operations in emergency response
• Conducted over 700 pre-deployment medical examination and verification for service personnel before deployment for United Nations/African Union mission
• Conducted medical boards for service personnel for medical insurance claims and compensation
• Conducted minor procedures such as incision and drainage, primary wound closure, surgical toileting, suprapubic catheterization and foreign body removal
• Managed medical and obstetric emergencies such as hypertensive emergencies/urgencies, severe acute asthma, diabetic ketoacidosis, allergic and hypersensitivity reactions, severe dehydration, seizures and pre-eclampsia.
• Completed patient referrals to other medical specialists.
• Participated in disease surveillance, monitoring and reporting through District Health Management Information System (DHMIS)
• Organized departmental medical doctors' duty rota
• Contributed in Hospital Clinical Management Team in drafting of departmental clinical protocols (SOPs)
• Feedback and coaching: Coached Medical Officer and Nursing Officer Interns and holding health education sessions while providing feedback to consultants and management on their performance
• Performed other duties as assigned

• Performed overall responsibility for daily clinical assessment and prescription of treatment for all patients visiting
• Organized with medical team weekly work and day-off schedule
• Identify, stabilize and coordinate referral of patients on time for further specialized management
• Ensured timely organization and smooth running of outpatient clinics
• Managed running of maternity ward and conducting safe deliveries, increasing deliveries by over 10% monthly
• Verified complex diagnoses to facilitate treatment plans.
• Directed and coordinated patient care activities of nursing and support staff.
• Confirmed consistent and accurate medical recordkeeping practices.
• Carried out other relevant duties as may be assigned by Medical Superintendent and MOH

Obstetrics and Gynecology;

• Monitored and conducted over 100 safe deliveries
• Performed over 50 elective and emergency caesarian sections
• Followed up of mothers in antenatal clinic
• Conducted cervical and breast cancer screenings
• Performed other surgeries such as tubal ligation, repair of perineal tears, manual vacuum aspiration and marsupialization
• Managed other obstetric emergencies such as pre-eclampsia/eclampsia, threatened abortion

Surgery;

• Performed over 150 minor procedures such as incision and drainage, primary wound closure, surgical toileting, excision, suprapubic catheterization and foreign body removal
• Assisted in major surgeries such as exploratory laparotomy, herniorrhaphy, hemorrhoidectomy and chest tube insertion
• Followed up on both surgical and orthopedic patients

Internal Medicine;

• Managed over 50 medical emergency cases such as hypertensive emergencies/urgencies, severe acute asthma, diabetic ketoacidosis, allergic and hypersensitivity reactions
• Cared and followed up medical patients both in-patient and assisted in specialized clinic
• Conducted ward rounds and continuing medical education (CME) sessions for other cadres

Pediatrics;

• Managed over 50 pediatric emergency cases such as neonatal sepsis, respiratory distress syndrome, severe dehydration, anaphylactic shock and seizures
• Cared and followed up pediatric patients both in-patient and assisted in clinic
• Conducted ward rounds and continuing medical education (CME) sessions for other cadres