Seyi Tinubu Donates To National Hospital In Abuja

In a important stride toward combating maternal and kid mortality successful Nigeria, the Seyi Tinubu Drug Bank Initiative has been launched astatine the National Hospital successful Abuja,

The inaugural funded by Mr Seyi Tinubu is aimed astatine bringing much-needed pharmaceutical enactment to the hospital’s Paediatrics, Obstetrics, and Gynaecology departments, to supply escaped indispensable medicines to indigent large women and children.

Represented astatine the motorboat lawsuit by Pharm. Ojeje Amin Onimisi, Mr Tinubu emphasised that the inaugural is driven by his compassion for susceptible populations, peculiarly women and children, and his tendency to spot Nigeria’s planetary maternal and kid wellness indicators amended significantly.

“This task is aimed astatine complementing the government’s efforts to guarantee that Nigeria’s maternal and kid mortality rates driblet significantly,” Mr Tinubu stated. “Our extremity is to marque definite nary pistillate oregon kid dies owed to deficiency of entree to basal medicines.”

Since its inception successful August 2024, the Seyi Tinubu Drug Bank Initiative has been rolled retired successful six tertiary hospitals crossed the country, with plans to grow to much institutions, including secondary and superior wellness attraction facilities successful the coming months

Providing further penetration into the program, Dr Ayodele Cole Benson, National Coordinator of the Seyi Tinubu Maternal & Child Healthcare Intervention Projects, explained that 60 tertiary hospitals person been identified for the initiative.

“This programme aims to found cause banks successful cardinal infirmary units, providing escaped medicines and transportation materials for indigent patients,” Dr Benson noted. “We are besides moving connected deploying Point-of-Care Ultrasound instrumentality to labour wards and antenatal clinics, supported by grooming to guarantee effectual usage.”

Dr Benson added that the enactment of National Hospital Abuja arsenic an aboriginal beneficiary was owed to its outstanding show and committedness to prime care, aligning with the initiative’s broader imaginativeness to conscionable and perchance surpass Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG 3) connected maternal and kid wellness by 2030.

Receiving the donation connected behalf of the hospital, Dr Isiaka Olayinka Lawal, who represented the Chief Medical Director, Prof. Muhammad Raji Mahmud, expressed appreciation for the motion and assured that the infirmary would guarantee the due implementation of the programme to execute its intended impact.

“We are grateful for this timely involution and pledge to guarantee that the cause slope serves the intended beneficiaries – our mothers and children successful need,” Dr Lawal said.

As portion of the event, an outstanding elder registrar astatine the hospital, Dr Ibrahim Fatima, was awarded Mr Seyi Tinubu Residency Training Scholarship of ₦1 cardinal to enactment her registration for her last residency examinations—an acknowledgement of her hard enactment and dedication.