We’ll establish dialysis centre this year – Isolo GH
By Damilola Kushimo
The Medical Director (MD) of Isolo General Hospital, Dr Godwin Akhabhoa has disclosed that the hospital will establish a dialysis centre before this year runs out.
Akhabhoa made this known to ECHONEWS as he held a quarterly stakeholder meeting with critical members of the community.
He said the hospital has sustained regular engagement with stakeholders in the community based on its firm resolution to deliver medical service from the point of view of patients and also make the hospital a one-stop medical facility to compete with others across the globe in terms of facility and service delivery.
He explained that previous engagements and feedback from the stakeholders and patients have brought about the constant upgrade the hospital recorded in recent years which he said include the establishment of Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) Centre, Gastroenterology service, orthopaedic service and special X-ray service among others.
He noted that the stakeholders meeting is one of the many forms of feedback mechanism the hospital utilises to seamlessly get feedback from patients and stakeholders in the community.
He, however, encouraged patients to spread the gospel of the topnotch service they get at the hospital and endeavour to explore various means of feedback mechanisms to lodge their complaints or make suggestions on what needs to be improved.
Meanwhile, he highlighted late medical consultation, vandalism and the cases of patients not meeting up with the financial commitment expected for medical treatment as the challenges the hospital encounters from patients.
He, therefore, appealed to patients to pay their medical bills, noting that it has always been subsidised by the government and also made a plea for voluntary and regular blood donation into the blood bank of the hospital, reiterating that it is a humanitarian act of saving lives and preventing avoidable deaths.
As one of the stakeholders, the DPO of Isolo Police Station, CSP Ajoke Akande, called for caution from patients or their relatives against vandalising the hospital properties especially because of emotional distress while appealing for more patience especially when there is a disappointment.
