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Lagos State authorities has commissioned 2 Advanced Smart Modular High Dependency Units (ASMOHDU) astatine Ifako-Ijaiye and Mushin General Hospitals.
At the unveiling of the ASMOHDUs held astatine the General Hospital, Ifako-Ijaiye, the peculiar advisor to the Governor connected Health, Dr Kemi Ogunyemi, recounted Lagos’ singular travel toward establishing modern HDUs, noting that a decennary ago, nary existed wrong the state’s nationalist wellness system.
“When I joined the wellness household 10 years ago, determination was nary HDU. The archetypal was established astatine Gbagada, and that inaugural came from the First Lady astatine the time,” she said.
She stressed that the conception of HDUs emerged successful effect to the state’s maternal and kid mortality indices.
“The T.H.E.M.E.S+ Agenda emphasises access, affordability, and quality, 3 pillars that specify our mission. These HDUs correspond that imaginativeness successful action: ensuring each Lagosian has entree to timely, life-saving care,” she affirmed.
Ogunyemi drew a vivid representation of the realities galore women look during childbirth, highlighting the affectional and carnal toll of maternal complications.
“Imagine a pistillate who comes into the infirmary afloat of anticipation and joy, lone for thing to spell wrong. These tragedies are preventable, and HDUs springiness america the capableness to respond fast, stabilise patients, and prevention lives,” she explained.
She added that the Smart Modular HDU exemplary integrates exertion with quality care, saying, “It’s not conscionable a country filled with machines; it’s a smart, responsive situation wherever each 2nd counts. Mr Governor’s imaginativeness is astir 1 thing. Saving lives, whether of mothers, newborns, oregon mishap victims.”
In his remarks, the Permanent Secretary of the Lagos State Ministry of Health, Dr Olusegun Ogboye, revealed that the commissioning of these units fulfilled a idiosyncratic and organization imaginativeness calved respective years ago.
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