By Chioma Obinna

The Commonwealth Medical Association, CMA, has won the bid to host a session at the 2022 People’s Forum of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) billed to hold in June in Kigali, Rwanda.

The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting is an annual meeting of all Heads of Government in the 54 countries of the Commonwealth of Nations. The CHOGM meeting was unable to hold in the last two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, as a result of recent developments, the Commonwealth Secretariat in London had announced that a physical meeting of CHOGM would be holding in Kigali, Rwanda.

Speaking, President of the Commonwealth Medical Association , CMA, Dr.Osahon Enabulele, said following a critical appraisal of the submitted bids by a Review Panel of the Commonwealth Foundation, the successful bids for the only available six sessions were formally announced by the Foundation, with the bid of the Commonwealth Medical Association among the successful bids.  With this development, the Commonwealth Medical Association has been granted approval to host a session on the opening day of the 2022 CHOGM People’s Forum billed for Tuesday, June 21, 2022.

Enabulele, stated that the CMA was excited at the approval He said this was in line with CMA’s earlier commitment to organise a special Summit on Human Resource for Health in advance of the CMA declarations at her November 2021 Conference/Council meeting, amongst which was a declaration calling on the Heads of Government in the Commonwealth and the Commonwealth Secretariat to declare a state of emergency on Human Resource for Health (HRH) in the Commonwealth based on the poor state of HRH in the LMIC countries and its negative impact on the quest for attainment of Universal Health Coverage.

Enabulele said he will be leading a 30-member delegation of the CMA to the session which will be centered on the current crisis of Human Resource for Health and its link with health inequality in the Commonwealth of Nations.  Calling on physicians, health administrators, other health professionals who wish to join the CMA delegation to the session billed to hold on June 21, 2022 to quickly indicate so through the email:osahoncmavp@gmail.com, he stated that a team of experts have been assembled to brainstorm on the chosen theme of the CMA session: Human Resource for Health and Health inequality in the Commonwealth: a Critical Appraisal of Brain Drain amongst healthcare professionals and workers in the Commonwealth of Nations.”