LASUTH upgrades infrastructure to address medical tourism

To tackle the insatiable quest by Nigerians to seek medical attention abroad, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) has upgraded its infrastructure to international standards.

Chief Medical Director (CMD) of LASUTH, Prof. Adetokunbo Fabamwo, who disclosed this yesterday, in Lagos, said that the move was to keep in tune with global practices via continuous facility upgrade, renovation, construction, improved clinical capacity and training of members of staff.

He said that infrastructure development, patient care/clinical services, capacity building, members of staff development, trainings and partnerships remain the hospital’s core areas of interest with a view to ensuring better healthcare for Nigerians.

Fabamwo said the diabetes clinic, house officers’ quarters, private wards, psychiatric ward, as well as the burns and trauma annex in Gbagada had been renovated, upgraded, furnished, extended and commissioned, adding that renovation work on Ayinke House was ongoing.

The CMD hinted that the tertiary medical institution had established a special services centre where endoscopy, bronchoscopy, renal dialysis and cardiac catheterisation are available.

According to him, the hospital carried out microvascular surgery tissue in the head and neck successfully, adding that it now carries out ICD insertion and neurosurgical intervention and also performs microvascular breast surgery (breast reconstruction).

Fabamwo disclosed that the hospital had a Public Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement to provide two mini ambulances to transport patients from wards to theatres and for other activities with the successful construction of an ambulance parking bay.

He said two tricycles were donated by the board to facilitate transportation of elderly patients apart from the three new 500 KVA generators that had been installed to augment power supply.

The CMD said LASUTH had also acquired a C-ARM machine to replace the old faulty one.

He stated that contract for the resident doctors’ quarters had been awarded, with the contractors already mobilised to site.

The CMD added that the hospital had equally established a staff crèche for nursing mothers to ease their stress.