PRINCE EBEANO SUPERMARKET DONATES MOTHER & CHILD CARE UNIT TO LAGOS HOSPITAL

A 20 bed Ultra-Modern Mother and Child Unit has been donated to the General Hospital, Ibeju-Lekki by owners of Ebeano Supermarket, Messrs Sunday Egede and David Ojei, as part of their corporate social responsibility initiatives.

The facility which has two maternity wards en suite, operating theatre, two consulting rooms and 135kva Cummins generator also has among other equipment, electro surgical machine, suction machine, ultrasound scan equipment, multi parameter monitor, infant warmer, oxygen concentrator and a phototherapy machine.

Speaking at the formal opening of the facility, the Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, who formally opened ultra- modern Mother and Child Unit enjoined staff and management of General Hospital, Ibeju-Lekki put the facility to good and effective use.

Idris described the Ebeano Mother and Child Unit as modern and the equipment of international standard, adding that it aligned with modern day design for healthcare facility, which the Lagos State Government had also adopted.

While commending the donors, the Commissioner who noted that inequality in healthcare service delivery was a reality, stated that the gesture would help to address inequality in the healthcare service, access to quality healthcare and cost of care, which are some of the objectives of the proposed Lagos Health Insurance Scheme.

“Before today, I had quietly visited the facility to see for myself what it looks like, what I saw then and what I have seen today is very commendable. The edifice is simple but very functional; it is in line with modern design for healthcare facility”, Idris stated.

The Commissioner while thanking the donors, Messrs Sunday Egede and Mr. David Ojei for their noble gesture noted that the facility is of international standard stressing that it will help to address inequality in healthcare service delivery in Lagos.

Said he, “I thank the donors, Mr. Sunday Egede and Mr. Jude Ojei. The facility that you have donated is of international standard. It will help to address inequality in healthcare service delivery in the state, address access to healthcare and cost of care, which are all at the core of the Lagos State Insurance Scheme which we will commence before the end of the year.

Earlier in a keynote address read by Mr. Chidi Koosi, on behalf of the donors, the duo explained that the gesture was a demonstration of their efforts to give back to the society and added that if more well-meaning Nigerians toed the same line the country can end medical tourism.

“What we are commissioning today is the result of our modest effort to give back to the society. In building this hospital project, we had international standards in mind. The facilities are the same you can find in advanced countries of the world. In doing this, we are making a statement that those whom God has graciously placed at the upper rungs of the economic ladder should have the empathy to invest their resources to cater for the less privileged”, he said.

While encouraging wealthy and well-meaning Nigerians to give back to the society by building world class facilities, the Koosi explained that it is by so doing that they can contribute to building a better and healthier society stressing that they are trying to show through the their gesture that a stop can be put to capital flight through medical tourism.

“We can have the best medical facilities in Nigeria if we have the will and foresight. We have both the human and material resources to do it. This is something we need to pursue with a sense of urgency because millions of our people are daily being assailed by health challenges that other nations have overcome. We must think of the poor, the rich can have the best doctors in America, Europe and India but not so the poor,” he concluded.