SEPLAT Unveils Oben Cottage Hospital, Holds Safe Motherhood Programme

SEPLAT Petroleum Development Company Plc, operators of the NPDC/Seplat JV, has commissioned the renovated Oben Cottage Hospital in Oben, Edo State.

The company also held the 2018 edition of its annual Safe Motherhood Programme, which is in alignment with the third Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 3) of the UN that promotes good health and wellbeing.

This year’s programme is proceeding under the theme - “Child Spacing”. The 28-bed hospital was part of the assets acquired by Seplat following the divestment by Shell in 2010 of its interests in OMLs 4, 38 & 41.

The renovated hospital building has the following amenities: Consulting Room, Maternity Ward, Male Ward, Female Ward, Laboratory, Heart-to-Heart Centre, Primary Healthcare Centre (PHC), Pharmacy, Theatre, Nurses’ Common Room, Labour Room, Records Unit, Outpatient Department (OPD) and Accounts Unit.

The Company’s Operations Director, Effiong Okon led a team from Seplat while the Edo State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Chris Obaseki, traditional rulers and chiefs from the Benin Kingdom, attended the event.

Okon said: “The Safe Motherhood programme is one of Seplat’s core social responsibility, which we take very seriously. In fact, our CEO, Austin Avuru, is always talking about giving back to the communities where we operate.