Wife of the president, Aisha Buhari and the governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu will on Thursday unveil a 149-bed Maternal and Child Centre (MCC) located within the Alimosho General Hospital, Lagos, in continuation of efforts to reduce incidence of child, maternal mortality in the state.
Commissioner for health, Akin Abayomi disclosed this Monday while inspecting the facility ahead of the commissioning.
The specialist centre was built and donated to Lagos State by the Federal Government through the Office of the Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to the President Muhammadu Buhari on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
According to Abayomi, 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.
Also put in place at the centre are ultra-modern equipment in aid of prompt delivery of maternal and child care services, such as patient monitors with EC02, suction machine double jar, ultra scan machines, oxygen generating machine, vacuum extractor delivery set, anaesthetic machine and diathermy machine.
Others include emergency cart with defibrillator, baby incubators, photo therapy lamps, paediatric ventilators, multipara meter monitors for mothers and babies, crash cart, theatre monitor, defibrillators and fetal Doppler.
Abayomi who praised the Federal Government for donation, noted that the centre would positively impact the efforts of Lagos State to promote the health of the mothers and children as well as improve the state’s health indices.
“We are very grateful to the Federal Government to have produced this extra capacity facility for us in our endeavour to look after mothers and children. We already have one mother and child centre at Alimosho but we have exceeded the capacity,” he said.
JOSHUA BASSEY
