COVID- 19 : OVER 384 BABIES DELIVERED IN APRIL AT LAGOS ISLAND MATERNITY HOSPITAL, LAGOS.










By Nosa Ekhator.


The Lagos Island Maternity Hospital in the month of April took delivery of over Three Hundred and Eighty-Four babies, a period when the World, Nigeria and Lagos State we're seriously faced with Coronavirus pandemic.

Speaking exclusively with SPARKNEWSNAIJA, the Apex Nurse and Assistant Director Nursing Services, Lagos Island Maternity Hospital, Mrs Adebukola Cole  said despite the pressure of COVID- 19 on health personnels and facilities in Lagos State, the Lagos Island Maternity Hospital was up to it's original and founding principles of providing healthcare services to expectant mothers and nursing mothers in Nigeria with special reference to Lagos State.


Mrs Cole said the hospital under the Leadership of  its Medical Director  and  Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Omololu olufemi, consultant  O & G,

as well as a team of competent  Doctors, Nurses and other medical and health facilitators admitted and provided services for over Four Hundred and Ninety patients through admission and other healthcare provision, stressing that Dr.  Omololu Olufemi provided the much desired leadership with the support of the Medical Doctors and other healthcare professionals that form  the Maternity Hospital team



The Hospital was also said to have had about One hundred and sixty-one referrals  from other hospitaals and healthcare providers in the state,     thirty-three elective caesarian sections and about One Hundred and Fouty-Four emergency caesarian sections in the period under review.

Mrs Adebukola Cole while thanking the state government for it's "Free medical Services, anti and post natal" policy however commended the Doctors, Nurses and all other staffs of the hospital for their dedication to service which, according to her, had  made the hospital to attain the current feat.






She said the 2020 celebration of the  international Nurses year  is apt and proper for the management to celebrate our professionals and colleagues in the healthcare industry.
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