Dangote donates ambulance to Apapa General Hospital
As part of efforts to enhance performances in its core area of healthcare delivery, the Apapa General Hospital has received a brand new ambulance and consumables donated by the Aliko Dangote Foundation. Receiving the donated items, the Medical Director/CEO of the Hospital, Dr. Lateefat Agbaje, stated that the management team reached out to the Dangote Foundation for assistance, and she is happy that the organisation supported them with the donated items. Dr. Agbaje listed other consumables donated by the Foundation as 9500 disposable nylon aprons, 450 booties, 13570 face masks, 670 face shields, 45000 hand gloves, 3743 eyeglasses, 28000 Nurse caps, 37 thermometers, 26,500 PPE corvettes, 3592 theatre booths, and one ultrasound scanner. The hospital team, she said, is working assiduously to improve the facility through various initiatives embarked upon, including ensuring that the clinics are relocated from the hospital upstairs to downstairs for easy accessibility of patients and residents of Apapa. According to her, “Apapa General Hospital is willing to collaborate with the Foundation in the area of pediatric and children’s healthcare services. For instance, during the last anniversary celebration, there was a medical outreach for children in the area”. The Medical Director, therefore, thanked the foundation for its generosity, promising to use them judiciously for an enhanced healthcare delivery to the residents. In his remarks, the Director, Health & Nutrition, Aliko Dangote Foundation, Dr. Francis Aminu said the purpose for the donation of the ambulance and medical consumables is for health and wellbeing of Apapa residents. “To achieve a healthy living, there’s a need to support the hospital to deliver quality health services to residents, especially for children. If the children are healthy, residents would be able to make more economic gain for the family”, Aminu said. He noted that the primary healthcare service is very important to residents, stressing that nobody will want to visit the General Hospital if the primary healthcare is well equipped. The General Hospitals are meant to handle the secondary aspect of health care services. The Foundation, he said, has supported the Federal Government and many States of the federation in the areas of infrastructure, health and education.
