{"id":11223,"date":"2017-02-20T15:24:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T14:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=11223"},"modified":"2017-05-22T11:09:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T10:09:29","slug":"kalu-dr-michael-igwe","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/kalu-dr-michael-igwe\/","title":{"rendered":"KALU, Dr. Michael Igwe"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(NPP) was born on December 20, 1929 at Amaba Amaokwe Item in Bende Local Government Area. He was educated at St. George&#8217;s School, Aba; Methodist CoUege, Uzuakoli; Igbobi College, Lagos; University College, Ibadan, University of Oxford, United King dom. A briUiant surgeon, Dr. Kalu holds M.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.R.C.P. (London); MB; B.S. (London); F.R.C.S. (Eng.) F.M.C.S. (Nigeria); F.I.C.S. He was House Officer, General Hospital, Southampton, U.K. and University College, Ibadan; Medical Officer, General Hospital, Lagos, Senior House Officer, Hammersmith Hospital, post-graduate Medical School London; casualty officer, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, United Kingdom; senior registrar, (surgery), University CoUege Hospital. Ibadan. consultant surgeon, Ministry of Health. Eastern Nigeria Government. Dr. Kalu retired as a chief consultant surgeon, Imo State, on July 1, 1978. He beUeves in &#8220;Service above self, welfarism and fairplay.&#8221; He is married and has five children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[174],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-11223","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-medicine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20478,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11223\/revisions\/20478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11223"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=11223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}