FGN Donated 149 Bed Maternal And Child Centre To Lagos Hospital

– Federal Government Donated medical facilities to Alimosho General Hospital

– The commissioner said that Inside the centre are ultra-modern equipment that will aid the prompt delivery of maternal and child care services

– He however said that the MCC would have an impact on the efforts of the Lagos State Government geared towards promoting the health of the mothers and children

 

The Wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, and the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, are expected on Thursday to unveil the medical facilities.

The state Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, made this known during an inspection tour of the facility in Lagos on Monday.

Abayomi, said that the specialist centre was built and donated by the Federal Government through the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to the Lagos State Government.

“The three floor facility has two operating theatres, recovery rooms, sterilisation room, delivery room, consultation rooms, private and general wards, scanning room, side laboratory rooms, reception area, lounge, nurses’ room and station, doctor call rooms, scrub room and a board room.“he said.

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The commissioner said: “Inside the centre are ultra-modern equipment that will aid the prompt delivery of maternal and child care services; this include: patient monitors with EC02, Suction machine double jar, ultra-scan machines, oxygen generating machine, vacuum extractor delivery set, anaesthetic machine and diathermy machine.

“Others are emergency cart with defibrillator, baby incubators, photo therapy lamps, paediatric ventilators, multi-parameter monitors for mothers and babies, crash cart, theatre monitor, defibrillators and fetal Doppler.”

Abayomi, lauded the gesture of the Federal Government for donating the facility.

He however said that the MCC would have an impact on the efforts of the Lagos State Government geared towards promoting the health of the mothers and children, reducing maternal and child mortality.