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21 JULY 2009
LAGOON HOSPITALS IN A CONTINUOUS PROCESS OF IMPROVEMENT, TRAINING AND UPGRADE
Written by: Daily Sun
Recently Lagoon Hospital in Apapa, Lagos, commissioned its new hospital wing that houses the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and High Dependency Unit (HDU) in line with its quest to benchmark its services against the best global standards.
Dr Kunle Onakoya, Group Medical Director of the hospital said the 6-bed ICU is complete with specially trained staff and life support equipment. The Unit is designed to look after patients with severe injuries, serious illnesses, organ failures of various types and other life threatening conditions which would have necessitated overseas medical attention.
According to Dr Onakoya, the hospital, founded in 1986 as a multi-specialty hospital, has in the past 23 years strived towards benchmarking its services against the best global standards. "We have assembled a team of highly trained healthcare professionals which include arguably the largest number of specialist consultants working full-time in any private hospital in Nigeria". He further noted that the hospital's quest for excellence is borne out of the realization that providing services along the entire spectrum of care and in particular at the tertiary level requires a continuous process of improvement, training and upgrade.
The recent commissioning follows the commissioning of the first stage of Lagoon Hospital's infrastructure and equipment upgrade. This was the opening of the Critical Care Unit (CCU), the Computerised Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Suites. The CT scanner was further upgraded to a 6-slice spiral machine which is able to do 3-dimensional reconstructions, CT Colonoscopy (virtual study of the colon) and CT angiography.
Dr Onakoya noted that the new machine is better able to support the Emergency Room staff in making fast and accurate diagnoses in emergencies. He further stated that the hospital has made recent advances in the area of paediatric care particularly in areas of premature and ill infants. He disclosed that a neonatal ventilator has recently been added to the unit to support the care of these ‘very tiny and often very ill babies'. This is in addition to an incubator as well as other such standard equipment in a special care baby unit. The unit now looks after premature babies that are born at less than 1 kg. Lagoon Hospitals Group has its flagship hospital in Apapa with branches in Ikeja and Victoria Island, all in Lagos.
