Nafiu Sabiu Usman

I welcomed and attended to more than one hundred clients visiting the services for tuberculosis screening and care.

• Carried out day-to-day duties accurately and efficiently.
• Quickly learned and applied seventeen new skills to daily tasks, improving efficiency and productivity.
• Supported the team by demonstrating respect and willingness to help.
• Consistently arrived at work on time and ready to start immediately.
• Offered friendly, efficient customer service and handled challenging situations with ease.
• Provided more than fifty medical advice and widespread support
• Working effectively with the entire staff

• PhD in Public Health focusing on health inequalities
• Completed the progression monitoring one and two reports and respective examinations
• Completed a mixed-methods systematic review and am currently waiting for publications
• Completed about 70% of my PhD program so far.

• I served as a senior Medical Officer in charge
• Outpatient consultations
• Management of patients involved in road traffic accidents at the ER
• Patients’ admission and management
• Patients’ care plan, management, and referral
• Teamwork collaboration with senior consultants from the federal and state tertiary health centres for patients I admitted to the clinic
• Working as Physician to the Governor of Katsina State, as well as the Head of Administration at the State’s Government House Clinic
• Collaboration with some top hospitals internationally in countries like India, Germany, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates for further care of my patients in situations of limited expertise and medical equipment

• Head of State Medical Team as a Unit of the National Team
• Head of Clinicals at the Clinic I was assigned to work
• Management of outpatients (Pilgrims) at the designated Clinics in Saudi Arabia
• Coordinating Patient’s transfer from Nigerian clinics to Saudi Arabian Hospitals
• Confirmation and processing of dead pilgrims of Katsina State origin at various locations and Saudi Hospitals
• Health talks and education on personal and environmental hygiene to our pilgrims and how to stay away from contracting communicable diseases
• Writing reports to the state’s authorities on the conduct of the entire 2017 Hajj Operation

• Deputy Head of Clinical Services.
• Consulting outpatients.
• Provide care and monitoring of improvement for in – patients during ward rounds.
• Assisting and performing major surgical procedures e.g. cholecystectomy
• Perform minor and intermediate surgical procedures e.g. appendectomy
• Coordinate the affairs of the social welfare department.
• Periodically develop protocol for efficient functioning of the clinical unit.
• Running of HIV clinic and outpatients for follow up
• Prepare, coordinate and conduct of presentations to hospital staff.
• Conducting health talks for patients and clients

• Out-patients (pilgrims) consultations
• Monitoring and updating treatment for admitted patients
• Health talks on preventive measures from contracting communicable diseases

• Head of NYSC clinic at NYSC Camp Bauchi State
• Served at Giwa Local Government Primary Health Care Centres, Kaduna State- Nigeria.
• Consulting outpatients
• Monitoring and evaluation of the in-patients and updating their care.
• Secure intravenous access for medication.
• Run ante-natal and post-natal clinic.
• Provide health talks for the community members e.g. on premarital testing and counselling for HIV and Sickle cell disease.
• Immunisation activities for children under five in the centres and community mobilisation

• Taking history of medical conditions, Examination of patients and making diagnosis.
• Commencement of appropriate medical care of admitted patients.
• Administration of Intravenous medication to in –patients.
• Securing Intravenous access.
• Sample taking for laboratory investigations.
• Performing bedside procedures e.g. catheterization and nasogastric tube insertion.
• Following up of patient’s investigation.
• Assisting during intermediate and major surgical procedures.