Apapa General Hospital Re-strategizes To Attract Public Patronage , Lauds Foundation For Support

 

By Roland Ekama

 

 

The Medical Director and Chief Executive Officer of Apapa General Hospital (AGH), Dr. Lateefat Omolara Agbaje has submitted that strategies are already being deployed for ease of access and to attract more patronage of the facility.

Dr. Agbaje disclosed this recently in Lagos when management of Aliko Dangote Foundation donated ambulance Vehicle, Ultra Sound Scanner among other medical wares to Apapa General Hospital (AGH) for effective delivery of service to the patients

MD who appreciated the gesture, promised that the items would be put into judicious use, stated that restructuring was currently ongoing to boost efficiency of staff clients relationship.

 

Agbaje told representatives from the foundation while conducting them round the hospital facilities, solicited for assistance for renovation of the emergency ward of the hospital which is in a distasteful state.

She said, “We want to thank them profusely for the generosity, the hospital is very grateful for this opportunity they have given us and we are actually looking forward to more from them.

“We realised that they are trying to fulfil their own vision and we are very grateful that we happen to be beneficiaries.”

“Definitely, we are working on the clientele base, we are trying to improve the ambience of the facility which will eventually increase the confidence of the people to use the facility.

“Currently, our clinics are upstairs and our first target is to move all those clinics downstairs for easy access.

“We are also doing some marketing strategies by celebrating our anniversary where we had an outreach for children in Apapa and we are going to continue doing that because people need to be reminded that there is a facility here rh can provide virtually, all the medical services that they require,” she stated.

The items supplied by the foundation to the hospital include; 9,500 disposable nylons/apron, 490 booties, 13,570 face masks, 670 face shades, 45,000 hand gloves, 3,743, goggles, 23,000 nurse caps, 37 thermometers, PPE 26,500 coveralls, 3,592 theatre boots, 1 ultra sound scanner and 1 ambulance Vehicle.

 

Dr. Francis Aminu, Director, Health and Nutrition, Aliko Dangote Foundation who presented the ambulance to the Medical Director and Chief Executive Officer of the hospital, said that the foundation’s sole objective is to help the vulnerable persons in the society

 

He added that the means to help maximise the income of families is by intentional moves to minimise the cost of hospital bills.

 

The foundation is the business unit under the Dangote Group with a vision of creating healthier Africa, more educated and more empowered continent to be able to do a lot of things.

Speaking during the presentation of the ambulance, Dr. Aminu said that the gesture was borne out if the quest to engender healthier African continent with a focus on community and individuals especially children and the vulnerable in the society.

According to him, the foundation provided the items as a means of stimulating good health among the children saying if children are healthy, there will be little or no cause to visit the hospitals.

His words, “Our intention is that we want a healthier Africans, Nigerians, Apapa people and if we want that, whatever is required as support to deliver the service, we are ready to give.

“Though we focus more on children, if the children are okay, you spend less, visit hospitals less and make more economic gains for the family.

 

 

“Primary health care is very important because we spend seventy percent of out lives in the hospitals and nobody is really happy to go to the hospital. If the primary health care is sound, the General Hospital will be able to do what it should do,” he submitted.