Massey St. Children’s Hospital gets facelift from GT Bank
BY CHIOMA OBINNA
In line with the effort to reduce infant and child mortality in the country,Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) last week gave the oldest children’s hospital in West African Sub Region, Massey Street Children’s Hospital (MSCH) a face- lift with the completion of an infrastructural upgrade.
The facelifted hospital also got a 250KVA soundproof generator, among several other equipment.
Mrs. Lola Odedina, Deputy General Manager, Communication and External Affairs, GT Bank PLC; Mrs. Kafilat Araoye, General Manager; Dr. Jide Idris, Commissioner for Health, Lagos State; PharmToyin Hamzat, Special Adviser to Lagos State Governor on Health during the official commissioning of projects donated by GT Bank to Massey Children’s Hospital
Among the infrastructural projects embarked upon at the hospital also include tiling and painting of seven wards, the reception area, emergency section, out – patient wing and nurses’ station.
Commissioning the projects at the official hand over of the several projects, the State Commissioner for Health, Dr Jide Idris posited that the projects and the donations would improve the hospital’s capacity to provide life saving services to children in Lagos and beyond, particularly now the state is working towards achieving the health goals of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Idris who lamented many challenges facing the hospital including lack of space said the hospital provides services for over 15 million people.
Handing over the projects, GTB General Manager/Head Settlements Group, Mrs. Khafilat Araoye said the motivation was to improve child healthcare in the hospital as it has remained the birth place of thousands of Lagos citizens since establishment in 1962.
Araoye recalled that in 1996 following MSCH’s paediatric facility’s limited ward and accommodation, rapid turnover of cases and an enormous out _ patient department, GTB initiated its now famous social responsibility partnership with the hospital when it donated a generator set and incubators and since then the partnership has been extended top cover various areas of infrastructural upgrades amongst others.
The GM who was optimistic that the projects have given the hospital face-lift to serve teeming population of Lagos said the GTB remains totally committed to the continuous development of the hospital.
The Chairman Board of MSCH, Dr. Yewande Savage who stated that the hospital relies on the state government for every thing called on well meaning Nigerians, corporate organisations to emulate GTB and assist as part of strategies to reduce deaths of infants and children in Lagos and Nigeria at large. She commended the Bank for the kind gesture.
