GEARED towards improved healthcare services through public and private efforts, Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola has commissioned a newly built hospital complex of St. Ives Specialist Hospital at Ikeja, Lagos.
Fashola said that the commitment of the hospital?s management had further shown that quality and affordable healthcare could be provided in the country.
The gesture, he said, allowed for more overseas based Nigerian specialists to practise at home even as it further discouraged reliance on medical care in foreign hospitals.
Fashola who was represented at the commissioning by his Special Adviser on Health, Mr. Toyin Hamzat, praised the effort of the Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Dr. Tunde Okewale for conceiving the idea to build such a world-class edifice in the service of God and humanity.
He said: ?This is clearly a demonstration of total commitment to the wellbeing of Nigerians in terms of standard and affordable healthcare delivery as we can see here this afternoon. Before now, the facilities in this hospital can only be found abroad.
And I urge everyone irrespective of race, creed and background to take full advantage of these facilities.?
Speaking with The Guardian, Hamzat added that the achievement was complimentary of the efforts of the Lagos State government in raising medical care standard in the state.
He identified that the government had raised standard at the Mother Maternal Centre (MCC), dental and diagnostic sections of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) even as the world class cardiac and renal centre at the Gbagada General Hospital nears completion.
?The essence of all these is to discourage our people from travelling abroad, as all healthcare can be given here. We want to make our hospitals in this state the destination point of healthcare in West Africa,? Hamzat said.
Okewale in his address further said that St. Ives had brought relieve to many distraught families because of their inability to have children they could call their own through the Invitro-fertilisation (IVF) and infertility unit.
He hinted that about 200 women who had lost hope of having babies were proud mothers through the assistance of the cost effective IVF method.
The core areas of focus of the hospital are women, children and the family, render services in the area of obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics, medicine and surgery.
In his words: ?The obstetrics services include pre counselling, specialist led antenatal care, ultrasound scan 2D, 3D, 4D, foetal monitoring CTG, foetal biophysical profile, antenatal classes, specialist led labour and delivery, neonatal care (incubator, phototherapy, EBT) etc.?
The gynaecological services also include menstrual disorders treatment, minor and major gynaecological surgery, laparoscopy, hysteroscopy, colposcopy, electrocautry, cervical smear, breast scan, sonohysterogram and HSG.
Others are the contraceptive services, which include emergency contraception, implants, injectables, IUCD and female and male sterilisation.
?The infertility unit of the hospital which has recorded tremendous success over the years will still continue to offer intrauterine insemination (IUI), IVF-ET, intra cytoplasmic sperm injection (ICS), embryo donation/ freezing, egg donation, sperm donation (sperm bank) and ovulation induction.
In the light of this, the former hospital located on Mojide Street will now be dedicated solely to the treatment of infertility cases especially in the area of IVF.?
The medical doctor with over 15 years of experience added that the services were affordable as well as subsidised through the collaboration of a foundation.
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