OTTAWA COUNTY — One of the crucial recognizable faces within the battle between the Ottawa Influence majority on the Ottawa County Board of Commissioners and the Division of Public Well being is retiring on the finish of Might.

Deputy Well being Officer Marcia Mansaray submitted her discover to Well being Officer Adeline Hambley on Friday, April 12, capping off a profession that spanned the higher a part of twenty years. Mansaray mentioned her retirement can be efficient Might 31.

One cause, she mentioned, is burnout after 4 years of COVID-19 and near-constant stress with the county board.

“Whereas the county is at present not a wholesome place to work, there was a shocking silver lining for me,” Mansaray wrote to Hambley. “It pushed me to study, to develop, to face taller, and to dream of higher issues for our group.”

Mansaray mentioned OI posed a brand new and beforehand unknown drawback for a division simply getting again to regular operations.

“When COVID-19 form of wound right down to a extra affordable degree that may very well be dealt with, most people — not less than (former well being officer) Lisa Stefanovsky and I — had been fairly exhausted and burned out,” Mansaray mentioned.

“I used to be wanting towards a traditional yr in 2022. And perhaps another folks had regular years, however the well being division did not — as a result of the Ottawa Influence group used the well being division and its varied applications and twisted good and correct issues into evil.

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