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Lagos University Teaching University continued to celebrate its 60th anniversary with the inauguration of three new multibillion-naira health facilities.
The facilities are poised to deliver essential services and improve the wellbeing of not only Nigerians but all those in sub-Saharan Africa.
The facilities include the new 60-bed, four floors Alima Atta Oncology wards built and equipped for LUTH at a cost of N1.5 billion by a philanthropist, Mrs. Iyabo Atta, in memory of her daughter, Alima who died of cancer. Other facilities are a 40-bed capacity ultra-modern neonatal intensive care unit and labour ward complex as well as a 30-bed intensive care unit. The last two facilities were funded by the Federal Government with N2 billion.
In his welcome address, Chief Medical Director (CMD) of Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Professor Chris Bode said we are here to celebrate good things happening in the life of this institution since August this year.
“Over the past six decades of existence in Lagos, we have grown with the city and we have been contributing our quota to national aspirations through our mandate, service, training and research.”
“While we are eternally grateful to our forbears who established this institution, we must dream anew to take LUTH vision to greater heights.
Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire commended the LUTH management for achieving such feats, saying the institution has established facilities that are at the forefront of health service delivery that are not comparable to other similar facilities in Africa.
According to him, “the giant strides LUTH has made are commendable in the area of oncology practices in Nigeria. He disclosed that the institution was one of the centers where full gamut of oncology care including diagnostic, chemotherapy, surgery and radiotherapy was first established as a one stop centre for cancer care in Nigeria.
Head of Service of the Federation, Dr. Folashade Yemi Esan, said government will ensure the needed medical staff to run the facilities and, assuring that the FG has prioritised the welfare of health care professionals as part of incentives to discourage migration of health workers to other countries.
Chairman, Board of Management, LUTH said, “We are proud of our staff both administrative and professional whose services have been instrumental in attracting well meaning Nigerians and their foreign friends to embark on projects meant to enrich the quality of services for which we have been set up.”
Atta prayed for the doctors, nurses and careers who will work in the building that God will grant them the knowledge, patience and wisdom to treat every patient alike irrespective of their status and make them feel that they have found solace.
