‘Mother and Child Hospital Akure is the busiest in Ondo’
About 14,216 babies have been delivered in the last 15 months at the Mother and Child Hospital in Akure.
Disclosing this to
reporters at a news conference in the state capital yesterday, the
State Commissioner for Information, Ranti Akerele, explained that an
average of 20-25 deliveries are recorded daily, thereby making it the
busiest maternity hospital in Ondo State.
The 100-bed
facility is dedicated to the care of pregnant women and children less
than five years of age, offering tertiary level health services free of
charge. Mr Akerele explained that the management of the hospital is
currently working towards a partnership with the London School of
Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Modern equipment
“As at 2 May 2011
about 15 months of operations,10,315 pregnant women, and 14,216
children (2,754) as pediatric inpatients have been registered and
treated with about 20 percent of them being non-residents of Ondo
State.
“Today the facility
at the Mother and Child hospital is amongst other things, a unique and
cost effective digitalised drug procurement system that has practically
eradicated out of stock syndrome, the bane of many free health schemes
across the country.
“The mother and child hospital has at its procession, state of the
art training equipment including electronic force monitoring birthing
and airway management simulators for life like practical demonstrations
and applications on emergency care.”
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