Mo Effanga

Biographical information

Full name

Maureen Effanga

Familial information

Children

Hector (b. 2017)

Parents

Violet Effanga
Clifford George

Other relatives

Ina Effanga (aunt)
Adele Effanga (cousin)
Celia Effanga (cousin)

Professional information

Occupation

Consultant cardiothoracic surgeon

Previous places of work

Holby City Hospital

Appearance information

*Casualty* appearances
31

*Holby City* appearances
14 • 15 • 16 • 17 • 18 • 19 • 20

Maureen "Mo" Effanga is a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon who worked on Holby City Hospital's Darwin Ward from 2012 to 2018.

Behind the scenes

Chizzy Akudolu portrayed Mo Effango on Holby City from 2012 to 2017. In late 2016, it was confirmed that she'd be making a guest appearance as the character on Casualty; she made her on-screen appearance in April 2017. She made her departure on Holby City two months later in June.

v • d • e Mo Effanga

Portrayed by Chizzy Akudolu

Associated characters	Ina Effanga • Derwood Thompson • Charlie Effanga-Thompson • Birdie Thompson

Centric episodes	"Double Bubble" • "From Here to Maternity" • "You and Me" • "Taxi for Spence" • "I'm Sticking With You" • "Hold on Me" • "If Not for You" • "To Absent Friends" • "Fault Lines" • "Unravelled" • "A Night's Tale" • "Never Let Me Go" • "Old Wounds" • "Friends Like You" • "Arthur's Theme" • "Merry-Go-Round" • "All I Want for Christmas Is You" • "Life after Life" • "Battle Lines" • "No Apologies" • "Keeping Mum" • "Collateral" • "Captive" • "Affair of the Mind" • "The Science of Imaginary Solutions" • "We Must Remember This" • "Estel" • "Star of Wonder" • "Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot" • "Brand New You" • "Good Girls Don't Lie" • "Love Divided by Three" • "Rock and a Hard Place" • "All About Evie" • "Small Disappointments" • "Lifelines" • "The Ides of March" • "Losing Control of the Wheel" • "Family Fortunes" • "Return to Innocence" • "A Good Man" • "Man of Conscience" • "The Sticky Mess of Being" • "Cover Up" • "Calling Time" • "What It Takes" • "Left Behind" • "Beneath the Cover" • "Beginnings" • "Kiss and Tell" • "All That Glitters" • "On the Ropes" • "Who You Are" • "Handle with Care" • "Dark Night of the Soul" • "Prioritise the Heart" • "It Tolls for Thee" • "Children of Men" • "Brave New World" • "Life in the Freezer" • "Snakes and Ladders" • "The Kill List" • "Just Get on with It" • "I Do, I Do, I Do" • "Daylight" • "What We Pretend to Be" • "Gold Star" • "Enigma" • "Twist of the Knife" • "For the Love of Maureen"

See also	Consultant

Consultants (and physicians with equivalent positions)

v • d • e Anaesthetics

Anil Banerjee • Edward Campbell • Annalese Carson • Navin Cole • Keith Greene • Sunil Gupta • Emma Jackson • Jeffers • Zubin Khan • Jesse Law • Chris Meredith • Jamie Norton • Rafi Raza • Paul Rose • Phillipa Ryan • Matt Strong • Jamila Vani • Henry Williams

Cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery

Andrew Ackroyd • Alex Adams • Connie Beauchamp • Charles Byrne • Joseph Byrne • Tom Campbell-Gore • Arianne Cornell • Eli Ebrahimi • Mo Effanga • Toby Geddes • Elliot Hope • David Hopkins • Dennis Hopkins-Clark • Haashim Javaid • Nick Jordan • Ed Loftwood • Kian Madani • Stuart McElroy • Muriel McKendrick • Anton Meyer • Jac Naylor • Joseph Offenbach • Matteo Rossini • Sahira Shah • Rajan Sinha • Sam Strachan • Alistair Taylor • Jennifer Yeo

Emergency medicine

Martin Ashford • Mike Barratt • Connie Beauchamp • Andrew Bower • Jim Brodie • Dominic Carter • Julian Chapman • Ciaran Coulson • Max Gallagher • Elle Gardner • Zoe Hanna • Ethan Hardy • Tom Harley • Harry Harper • Jack Hathaway • Nick Jordan • Dylan Keogh • Philippa Kinross • Theo Lambert • Stevie Nash • Will Noble • Ewart Plimmer • Adam Trueman • Miriam Turner • Baz Wilder

v • d • e General practice

Joseph Byrne • Dylan Keogh

General surgery

Mike Barratt • Alex Broadhurst • Serena Campbell • Dan Clifford • Dominic Copeland • Linden Cullen • Percy Durant • Sarah Evans • Russell Faber • Fleur Fanshawe • Ange Godard • Lola Griffin • Ric Griffin • Henrik Hanssen • Nick Jordan • Nina Karnik • Jesse Law • Sacha Levy • Kimberley Lewis • Diane Lloyd • Antoine Malick • Jac Naylor • Andrew Nicholson-Heath • Max Schneider • Ben Sherwood • Michael Spence • Bernie Wolfe

v • d • e Neurology and neurosurgery

Annabelle Cooper • John Gaskell • Zsa Zsa Harper-Jenkinson • Frances Lively • Gaynor Lockford • Roxanna MacMillan • Walter McFay • Max McGerry • Charles Merrick • Guy Self • Edward Thurlow

v • d • e Obstetrics and gynaecology

Fleur Fanshawe • Derwood Thompson

v • d • e Orthopaedics

Sean Anderson • Alex Broadhurst • Howard Fairfax • Dan Hamilton

v • d • e Paediatrics

Jonathan Barling • Anna Chandler • Ooma Chowdry • Sean Dolan • Jeremy Solis • Janice Taylor• Will Noble

Mo Effanga

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