The Lagos Island Maternity and Hospital has been equipped with a new Intensive Care Unit (ICU) facility to boost its operation.
The 57-year-old hospital is ranked top among maternity facilities in the country, with over 400 baby deliveries monthly.
The ICU equipment commissioned, Wednesday (today) is donated to the hospital by Committee of Wives of Lagos State Officials (COWLSO).
The ICU is equipped with humidifier, multi parameter monitors, portable multi parameter monitor, volumetric infusion pump, portable suction unit, blood fluid/warmer, automatic external defibrillator and marquet servo air intensive care unit ventilators.
Also donated by COWLSO to four other general hospitals in the state are otoread audiological instrument. The benefitting hospitals imclude those in Gbagada, Ikorodu, Badagry and Ifako-Ijaiye.
Bolanle Ambode, wife of the Lagos State governor and chairman of COWLSO, who commissioned the ICU equipment, said it was a special intervention to save the lives of mothers and children during delivery.
“Now and then, we hear of many pregnant women and their babies dying of conditions such as pregnancy-induced hypertension, convulsion or shock arising from post-delivery bleeding.
Here lies the wisdom in COWLSO’s intervention in upgrading and strengthening the existing high dependency unit, to an ultra-modern ICU, to cope with increased number and complexity of emergency cases,” Ambode said.
Joshua Bassey
