Ex-CAS Mercy Mwangangi Bounces Back After Missing Out On PS Post
The Governor also appointed five more people to the board who will serve alongside the former CAS
Marvin Chege 
Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja appointed former Health Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS) Dr Mercy Mwangangi as the Chairperson of the Pumwani Hospital Board.
The appointment was made through a Gazette notice published on Friday, April 28, 2023, with Mwangangi expected to serve in the role for a period of three years.
The Governor also appointed five more people to the board who will serve alongside the former CAS. They include Evalyne Ikwii Omasaja, Saidi Motokaa, Ali Joram Juma Mkwambaa, Zahra Mohammed, and Hassan Ali Amin.
Nairobi Governor, Johnson Sakaja and former Health CAS Mercy Mwangangi. /FILE
Chief Government pathologist Johansen Oduor will chair the Nairobi Funeral Home (City Mortuary) board for three years in another top appointment made by Sakaja.
Amref Health Africa Global CEO, Dr Gitahi Githinji was appointed as the Chairperson of Mbagathi Hospital, while Dorcas Kemunto was appointed as the Chairperson of Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital.
Dr Isaiah Tanui was appointed as the Chairperson of Mutuini Hospital, and Grace Omoni was appointed as the Chairperson of Pumwani Maternity College of Nursing and Midwifery.
Mwangangi's role is a promotion from the one she had as a member of a task force to review and propose reforms in the Nairobi City County Health Sector.
She was appointed to an 8-member team on September 15, 2022, that was led by former Kenyatta University Vice Chancellor, Prof Olive Mugenda.
Part of the roles of the task force includes reviewing the citizens’ access to Quality Health Services, assessing the status of all Public Health Facilities, reviewing the Supply Chain Management of Pharma and Non-Pharma products and assessing the status of Health Information Management and proposing interventions towards a comprehensive Health Information Management System.
Other roles include reviewing the current Human Resource Capacity and assessing the Gaps and proposing an Efficient Health Financing Model.
"The Taskforce shall prepare and submit its report to the Governor of Nairobi City County Government together with its recommendations within Forty-Five (45) days from the date of its appointment. The Office of the Governor shall constitute the secretariat of the Taskforce," Sakaja stated at the time.
The sultry-voiced CAS burst into fame in 2020 during the war against the COVID-19 pandemic and wowed every Kenyan, especially men, and journalists mesmerised by her eloquent response to questions.
She joined the University of Nairobi for a degree in Medicine and graduated in 2009. The 36-year-old is an alumnus of Pangani Girls High School and in 2015, she graduated with a Master of Health Economics and Policy from the University of Adelaide, Australia.
Mwangangi revealed that she opted to pursue medicine as the opposite of a career that was pursued by her mother, law.
“My mother is a lawyer and I thought I am not going to be a lawyer. So what is the opposite of a lawyer? I said doctor,” she told the Nation.
Mwangangi was among 477 people shortlisted for the position of Principal Secretary (PS) on October 6, 2022, but was omitted from the final 51 nominees, which the President all approved for appointment on December 2, 2022.
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