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Uchenna Nwosu is the founder and Medical Director of Apex Medical Center, Igbo-Ukwu, and currently an Emeritus Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at East Tennessee State University College of Medicine.

He left Igbo-Ukwu for USA in 1961 on scholarship to Harvard College, where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry followed by MD degree at Boston University School of Medicine. After his Residency and Fellowship training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Pennsylvania Hospital, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia he returned to Nigeria in 1977 and taught for four years at University of Ife, (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile-Ife, rising to the rank of professor in 1978. He resigned and returned to his home town, Igbo-Ukwu to found the Apex Medical Center in 1981with strong encouragement of supportive friends and investors. After nine years at Igbo-Ukwu he returned to USA with his family to re-join the academia as professor of Ob/Gyn at East Tennessee State University College of Medicine in Johnson City, Tennessee, while at the same time developing the flag ship hospital at Igbo-Ukwu, and reinvigorating its similar rural branches at Uga and Nkwelle-Ezunaka.

Retiring from US in 2012 he led the company he founded in establishing an Orthopedic Hospital branch at Awka the Anambra State capital in 2013. The success of that branch has led to the establishment of an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and a Neurosurgery Center at the same site in 2021.

He now spends more time in his home town Igbo-Ukwu in Nigeria than USA. He feels called to extend good medical care plus health education to the underserved rural population where he has his roots.

“Take this with you to America; take it with you everywhere, but bring it back to Igbo-Ukwu.”
I accept the gift from the villager… it was a gift of garden soil wrapped in green ogilisi leaves.

This book is about finding one’s purpose in life. I found mine at 15 – a home-grown medical mission – after the untimely death of my father from lack of modern health care in my Nigerian village in the 50’s. I had vowed to build a hospital in my village, though it had no electricity or running water.

Wrapped Soil is my story of going to America after High School, and returning home to my roots as a medical doctor to sow a mustard seed – which becomes a tree.

Newspaper  
United States, Alabama
Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Headline: Uchenna Nwosu Shares an Extraordinary Journey and His pursuit of a Dream of Becoming a Medical Doctor, and His Return to Nigeria

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