News Articles
Click here to return to News page.
17 OCTOBER 2009
HOSPITAL REPOSITIONS FOR COMPLEX HEALTHCARE
Written by: This Day
One of the leading private health institutions in the country, lagoon hospitals, said it is repositioning to meet the challenges of healthcare delivery in the 21st century as well as complement the public-private partnership initiative of the Federal Government to move the country's health sector forward.
Thus the 22 year old hospital established in 1986 has acquired state-of-the-art medical equipment such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Computer Tomography (CT) scanners and also established an Intensive Care Unit for general patients and Special Care baby Unit for the infants.
The Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Dr Kunle Onakoya, while addressing the press at the Apapa branch of the hospital recently, said the hospital until recently was the only health institution having mammography machine in the whole country. He said due to the increasing environmental requirements in such areas as accidents, burns, diseases like diabetes, hypertension, cancer and several others which formed the bulk of hospital attendance by patients daily and the hospital situated close to a major business and traffic centre, it becomes incumbent upon the hospital to equip itself very well for this major responsibility.
"More than anything we have the desire to serve the people and the community by trying to cater for their needs. There is far more demand in this environment in the areas of burns, road accidents and diseases like diabetes, cancer which are posing a challenge to the hospital" he noted.
The Chief Medical Director explained that the hospital established the Special Care Baby Unit to take care of children with low weight at birth and regulate the temperature of new babies with the aid of an incubator.
While conducting pressmen round the facility later, Onakoya disclosed that the Intensive Care Unit is a very sensitive department meant for patients that need one form of life support or the other, such as a person who cannot breathe, due to accident or shock or with multiple organ failure or acute burns.
