Ngozi Oketah

Consultant Paediatrician @CHI with special interest in young people’s physical/mental health. Global director, International Adolescent Health Week @ IAHW-IAAH

[International Adolescent Health Week @IAHW_IAAH]

We are proud to celebrate @nahedjh, IAHW Committee Member and Consultant in Adolescent Medicine at the Royal Hospital Oman, for receiving the prestigious 2026 Hillary E.C. Millar Award for Innovative Approaches to Adolescent Health Care. A truly well-deserved honor! 👏
#IAHW2026

[Joel Osteen @JoelOsteen]

When you let God be your vindicator, He’ll take care of who’s trying to stop you. He’ll deal with the disrespect, the jealousy, the people who are doing you wrong. Don’t fight battles that don’t matter.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

NHS FILED 200 COMPLAINTS AGAINST A DOCTOR. EVERY SINGLE ONE WAS LIES.

Dr Raj Mattu was a cardiologist at Walsgrave Hospital in Coventry. In 2001 he spotted something management had apparently missed: squeezing five patients into cardiac bays built for four was killing people.

A 35-year-old died because staff could not physically reach him through the overcrowding. Dr Mattu told @BBC (@nhsuhcw). He filed reports. He raised alarms.

The NHS response was textbook. They suspended him. Then they filed 200 complaints against him to the General Medical Council. Not a typo. Two hundred. Over eleven years. Every single one was rejected.

A tribunal later heard that a senior manager had said : don't worry about a parking ticket, we want to get him off the road completely. The suspension followed within weeks of that conversation.

Dr Mattu was sacked in 2010. He spent over a decade unable to practise cardiology while the trust spent an estimated £14 million of public money fighting to keep him out. His health deteriorated. He underwent major lung surgery. His colleagues described him as being hounded mercilessly.

In 2016 an employment tribunal ruled he had been unfairly dismissed. He was awarded £2.5 million in compensation including tax contributions. The tribunal found the dismissal was inextricably linked to his 2001 whistleblowing. It confirmed he was blameless.

The CEO who oversaw the whole campaign, David Loughton, was later awarded a CBE.

The doctor who tried to save them got destroyed.

The managers who destroyed him got decorated.

Sources: @BBC @guardian @nhsuhcw

[Ngozi Oketah @EngozyO]

This Friday I'm co-moderating the Youth Track at the 13th IAAH World Congress on Adolescent Health in Trelawny, Jamaica! 🌍💚

Theme: "Beyond Awareness... Resilience, Reimagining, Responding"

Young people aren't just the future of health - they're agents of change right now.

[Ngozi Oketah @EngozyO]

Sessions cover everything from nutrition & AI to gaming, storytelling & youth advocacy.

If you're at the Congress, Please join us at the Youth Day!

#AdolescentHealth #YouthDay #IAAH2025 #Jamaica #YouthLeadership

[Don Keith @RealDonKeith]

🚨Islamists in Nigeria kidnapped 416 women and children three days ago.

They just issued an ultimatum and have begun executing the hostages.

Total media blackout in the West. No outrage, no coverage — just silence.

[Sean Feucht @seanfeucht]

"They seized my baby and sliced him in two with a knife.

My second child woke up ... They split his head with a machete."

THIS IS THE REALITY FOR NIGERIAN CHRISTIANS.

When will the world wake up?!

[The BMA @TheBMA]

‘It feels like political games. They can do something about it, but they choose not to.’

Resident doctors began a six-day walkout yesterday after the Government moved the goalposts on a proposed pay increase at the last minute.
https://t.co/sJLqn6GFcr

[The Biblical Man @Biblicalman]

Joseph of Arimathea pulled a corpse off a cross with his bare hands.

Blood under his fingernails. The weight of a dead man sagging into his arms.

He wrapped God in linen, pressed the fabric into wounds that were still wet.

Nicodemus brought seventy-five pounds of burial spice. A king's funeral for a man the world just murdered.

They carried Him into a hole in the rock and rolled the stone shut.

And everything you've ever done went in with Him.
Every night you can't sleep because of what you did. Every morning, you can't look in the mirror. The thing you did to her. The thing you did to them. The
lie you've been carrying so long it feels like bone.

The version of you that drinks alone and pretends tomorrow will be different.

That man was buried with Christ.

Stone sealed. Done.
Not managed. Not in therapy. Not on a payment plan with God where you slowly earn your way back. Buried. In a tomb. Under rock. Gone.
Three days of silence. Three days of a cold body in the dark.

Then the stone moved.
And when He walked out, the grave clothes were folded on the slab. He didn't stumble out tangled in death. He left it sitting there like a man who's done
with the clothes he used to wear.
Lazarus needed someone to unwrap him. Death still clung to him even after he was breathing.
Jesus folded His own burial linen and walked out clean.

That's the difference between religion and resurrection. Religion unwraps you slowly. Asks you to manage your sin. Attend the class. Read the book. Try harder next week.
Resurrection says the man who walked into that tomb is dead. The man who walked out doesn't know him.
You're not fixing the old you. The old you is in a sealed tomb in Jerusalem, and he's not coming back.
The man reading this, the one who thinks he's too far gone, you're not too far. You're already buried. The funeral happened two thousand years
ago.
Now get up. The stone's already moved. The linen's already folded.

Walk out.

[Ngozi Oketah @EngozyO]

@tyromper Happy Easter @tyromper to you and your lovely family. Yes! He is risen indeed

[International Adolescent Health Week @IAHW_IAAH]

1,099 applications received for the IAHW 2026 Youth Ambassador Program!
Thank you to every passionate youth leader who applied. 💚
Shortlisted applicants will be contacted by end of April 2026, keep an eye on your email and our socials for updates!
#IAHW2026 #YouthAmbassador

[Ngozi Oketah @EngozyO]

Guess what arrived in the post? 🎉📬

I’m honoured to receive the Regional Chapter Recognition Award from SAHM at the 2026 Seattle conference. I couldn’t attend, but grateful to now hold it in my hands.

A humbling recognition of work improving young people’s health & wellbeing

[International Adolescent Health Week @IAHW_IAAH]

Huge congratulations to Dr. @EngozyO on receiving the 2025 Regional Chapter Award from the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine 🏆

A well-deserved recognition for her tireless leadership and impact in advancing adolescent health globally. 💚👏

#AdolescentHealth #IAHW

[QIClearn @QIClearn]

🚨 Whether you're just starting out or preparing to lead your first Quality Improvement project this 2-day virtual course gives you the tools, skills, and confidence to explore QI independently.

Sign up: https://t.co/MPSlSjK1wI

#QualityImprovement #QI #HealthcareEducation

[Ngozi Oketah @EngozyO]

Still on!!
Please share to your network of budding young leaders
#IAHW2026
@IAAHglobal

[International Adolescent Health Week @IAHW_IAAH]

Passionate about adolescent health? Join us as an IAHW Youth Ambassador.
This is a voluntary capacity-building opportunity designed to strengthen your skills and build practical experience in leadership and advocacy.

Deadline: 15 March 2026
Apply now: https://t.co/AbR0Zm9l8c

[International Adolescent Health Week @IAHW_IAAH]

Passionate about adolescent health? Join us as an IAHW Youth Ambassador.
This is a voluntary capacity-building opportunity designed to strengthen your skills and build practical experience in leadership and advocacy.

Deadline: 15 March 2026
Apply now: https://t.co/AbR0Zm9l8c

[Ngozi Oketah @EngozyO]

@parthaskar Professor Kar is a movement 🔥

[Ngozi Oketah @EngozyO]

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[Dr. AK 🇮🇳 @docakx]

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[Ngozi Oketah @EngozyO]

This is not about excusing wrongdoing—patient safety must always come first. But accountability and compassion can coexist. Supporting doctors before desperation leads to errors ultimately protects patients too.
#DoctorWellbeing #FemaleDoctors #MentalHealth #PatientSafety

[Ngozi Oketah @EngozyO]

What drives even skilled doctors to breaking points? Extreme work pressures, family responsibilities, and isolation can push professionals to desperate choices.

https://t.co/CZir1OWJQl

[Ngozi Oketah @EngozyO]

Doctors are human. Public shaming solves nothing. Healthcare needs systems that support staff, allow them to seek help safely, and value humanity alongside accountability. Compassion must match patient safety.