Former UNIBEN DVC appointed Surgeon-General of KSJI

By Jethro Ibileke

A former Deputy Vice Chancellor of University of Benin (Ekehuan Campus), Professor Augustine Orhuex has been appointed Supreme Subordinate Surgeon General of the Knights of St John International (KSJI).

His appointment by the Supreme Subordinate President (SSP), Major Gen Remy Uche, was contained in a press release by the KSJI Director of Publicity, Sir Chris Umogbai.

With the appointment, Prof. Orhue becomes the first Supreme Subordinate Surgeon for Supreme Subordinate Commandery in Nigeria.

According to the statement, Prof. Orhue is expected to initiate and drive medical outreach programmes within the Grand Commanderies for the benefit of KSJI members and their immediate communities, as part of Christian obligation.

He is expected to arrange periodic hospital visitations to comfort and defray the bills of the very indigent patients within the limits of budgetary provisions, as part of fraternal and charity requirements of the Order.

Orhue will “help cascade all national health directives and guidance from the Federal Government to our membership as we are presently witnessing in the country, particularly with COVID-19 protocol, Omicron, liaise with the SSP to constitute a Standing Committee on Health, to achieve the above defined targets and any other health related problem,” the statement said.

Prof. Orhue of Commandery 494 Benin City, is an Emeritus Professor of Gynecology and has had a distinguished medical career; was a World Health Organization (WHO) Consultant in Reproductive Health and former member African Network on Reproductive Health.

He is a Fellow, Academy of Medicine Specialties of Nigeria, Fellow Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists, Fellow International College of Surgeons, Fellow West African College of Surgeons, Fellow Royal Society of Medicine.