Isolo General Hospital aims for LASUTH, LUTH status, says MD
TMedical Director/ Chief Executive Officer of Isolo General Hospital, Dr Saliu Oseni, has expressed his determination to reposition the the Hospital to enable it to compete favorably with the Lagos University Teaching Hospital ( LUTH), Lagos State University Teaching Hospital ( LASUTH) and Federal Medical Centre ( FMC), Ebute- Metta.
Speaking during the 2024 New Year Party and 2023 Retirees Sendforth ceremony, Oseni said his vision is to make the Isolo General Hospital become a destination for medical tourism. He said, “My ultimate wish for this hospital is for it to be positioned where it actually belongs which is like a territory institution which will be able to compete adequately with hospitals like LASUTH, LUTH, FMC Ebute Meta and the likes so we can have a once stop health service environment for clients with this, we hope that with time people will do medical tourism to the hospital. So that we can say General Hospital Isolo is as good as any teaching hospital in the federation'.
Oseni who was transferred to the hospital on 19 October 2023, highlighted his achievements in modernising the hospital's infrastructure and improving service delivery,
According to him, the hospital management under his leadership is fully equipping the newly renovated emergency room with needed items.
He listed other achievements to include ' provision of a brandnew dental X- ray to replace the condemned one, replacement of spoilt air conditioners at the dental department with brand new inverter ACS, provision of CPAP machine to the Paediatric department, creation of the Department of Psychiatry which the construction of the admission ward is in the pipeline and the refurbishment and upgrading of the electronic medical report is currently in progress, provision of 10kva solar inverter 15KW lithium battery for the emergency room, allowing it to be fully run off the grid, provision of multiparameter monitors at the new emergency room, provision of 10kva solar inverter with 5KW lithium battery for the GOPD, provision of 5kva inverter for the laboratory, replacement of the inverter batteries at serve: room with 7.5kwatts lithium batteries, facilitation of completion of the 30kva inverter donated to the MCC, which is now connected but yet to be handed over to the hospital for full effective use'.
Oseni stated that despite the progress made, there are challenges that need to be addressed such as manpower shortage and inadequate space especially regarding the small emergency room.