Lagos donates ambulance, ICU equipment to military hospital

July 29, 2013 17:14:16pm GMT By Press Release
Lagos

Lagos State Government has donated a mobile intensive care unit ambulance and other intensive care unit equipment such as Defibrillator, ECG Machine and Ventilator valued at million of naira to the Creek Military Hospital, Ikoyi, in order to enhance the intensive care unit of the hospital as well as improve their service delivery to the people of Lagos.Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris who made the donation on behalf of the government stated that the donation is a demonstration of the state government’s resolve to support institutions that share common objectives and goals with the government in addressing the healthcare delivery system of the people of the state.Said he, “a lot of the equipment we are donating to the hospital including the multi-parameter cardiac monitor, ventilator, automated external defibrillator, pulse oximeter, portable echocardiogram machine and ECG machine are geared towards the development of the intensive care unit of the hospital based on the request of the authorities of the hospital”.Idris noted that the donation represents the state government’s collaborative drive with other sectors of the society to strengthen and improve social and health services to the people of the State.He added the Ministry of Health will soon commence collaborative and partnership initiative with the hospital as well as other related health facilities in the state in disaster management and emergency care.In his response, the Director of the Hospital, Brigadier General Napoleon Amarie commended the state government for the good gesture stressing that the ambulance and indeed the donation will help to improve health services delivery in the hospital.He assured that the hospital will utilized the ambulance effectively adding that the hospital is not only open to any form of partnership with the Lagos State government but also ready to key into the various programmes of the Ministry of Health.

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