When you need to get modern medical facilities into place immediately, a turnkey hospital is the key to delivering first rate healthcare options to patients in need. This approach is guaranteed to rejuvenate the healthcare sector in Nigeria, while revolutionizing healthcare facility management in Africa. Providing clean, modern medical facilities is the key to achieving superior heath care by lowering infections, and speeding up patient recovery time.

Advantages of Turnkey Hospital Operations

Building, staffing, and outfitting a modern medical facility is a daunting task when you consider building from the ground up. Specialized knowledge, material, and skills are needed from day one to carry out this herculean endeavor. Until now, that is. Contracting with an experienced and efficient turnkey contractor transforms your vision into reality. Furthermore, utilizing the advantages gained through economies of scale, providing first-rate medical care is an attainable goal from day one, and at an affordable cost.
Through the construction of easily reproducible modular hospitals, turnkey operations are able to complete 90% of the fabrication work off site before moving into the final assembly phase at your location. What this means for communities in need is that they can have a fully functioning hospital up and running in no time at all. This method ensures that there is a minimum of disruption on the ground, while providing the maximum benefits of flexibility for future growth and expansion requirements.

Ongoing Support and Infrastructure Maintenance

Getting the walls up and the electricity turned on are only the beginning moves in establishing a fully functional medical facility, however. As such, when you decide that a turnkey hospital is in your future, it comes fully staffed and equipped. As you can see, quite literally, a turnkey hospital is just that...turnkey.
Beyond construction of the hospital, everything from a grand strategic vision to common I.T. solutions are required to keep the hospital up and running, and at peak efficiency. A turnkey hospital provides that efficiency through on-going training, maintenance, renovations, and more.

Drawing from a talented pool of Nigerian expatriate healthcare professionals, a turnkey hospital can be staffed with a caring population that wants to give back to the community from which they came. With state of the art medical equipment at their disposal they are allowed to do exactly that. In this way, modular turnkey hospitals are renovating the face of public healthcare facility management in Africa.

Deux Project Ltd

At the heart of the successful construction of turnkey medical establishments in Nigeria and West Africa, stands Deux Project Ltd. Deux Project, under the guidance of Olatunji Olowolafe http://activerain.com/kayodeolatunji(also known as Dr. Tunji Olowolafe), as its managing director, is an industry leader in the delivery of modular hospitals that are changing health care facility management in Africa.

Deux Project is a consultancy firm on the cutting edge of healthcare delivery to communities in need. Their vast experience is clear from their prior experience: The Lagos State University College of Medicine and the Medical Research Center. These medical complexes only exist because of the skills, knowledge, and expertise of the professionals at Deux Project. Unwilling to rest on their laurels however, they are always ready to continue their efforts towards helping rejuvenate the healthcare sector in Nigeria and beyond, by providing excellent healthcare facility management in Africa.

Developing nations often have a hard time trying to gain the resources that they require in order to develop their infrastructure and become self-sufficient. However, some simple business practices can come to their aid and help speed up the process. One such practice is called turnkey contracting.

Turnkey Hospitals

Medical care is one of the top priorities on the lists of almost every developing nation. This is why there should be no compromises when it comes to healthcare and related services. Even the most developed nations do not dare to have a lackadaisical approach towards their medical facilities. Some global organisations have claimed that there are more than 125 million children all over the world who are not only experiencing acute poverty but also lack of proper healthcare. Moreover, many of them are physically disabled in some form. Most developing nations are attempting to focus on healthcare and turnkey hospitals, which just might be what is needed to make a difference.

The concept of turnkey is not a new one; in fact it has been around for a long time but is only now gaining recognition. It revolves around maintaining a whole facility as a collective product, which can then be sold to any interested party that wishes to go ahead with it.

The concept, when applied to hospitals, can result in some interesting situations that can be favourable, especially when it comes to developing countries. The turnkey contract is usually supplied by the contractor of the facility and not the owner. This means that all the legal responsibility for the various factors that go into its construction, such as design and building, resides with the contractor himself. The owner has no liability whatsoever with regard to these factors. All the responsibility regarding the maintenance of the hospital falls on the contractor instead of the owner. As the whole hospital has been designed and built to order, it can then be completely sold to the buyer, ready for use and business operation.

Advantages for the Developing Nations

There are specific advantages for developing nations to look for and construct turnkey contracted hospitals. For instance, they get fully furnished facilities set up with the latest technology and equipment that a hospital may need. Some turnkey contractors, such as Deux Projects, led by their CEO, Kayode Olatunji Olowolafe (also known as Olatunji Kayode Olowolafe)http://www.linkedin.com/in/kayodeolatunji, also offer specialised hospitals, which come equipped with tools that use state-of-the-art technology in order to help doctors provide better diagnoses for their patients. Many also offer special wards that cater to specific kinds of treatment, such as radiology and nuclear medicine.

The advantage is that all the features come in a single package and the buyers (whether private or government) need not worry about the minutiae of the contracted and finished product once the agreement has been drawn and finalised. This allows the whole deal to be fast, because no changes of decision need to be made and there are almost no chances of red tape, as the necessary contracts have already been drawn up and settled. It also allows the property to become immediately operable as soon as the product is handed over to the owner.

While most people would consider South America to be a mix of Spanish, Portuguese and Native roots, a huge cultural debt is also owed to the slaves that were taken from West Africa. In Brazil, the link is particularly strong and there are over 150 million people of African descent living there, with more than a third descendants of the Yoruba who make up 21% of Nigeria’s population.

Ever since the United Nations Proclaimed 2011 as the year for the “People of African Descent”, there have been more concerted efforts to help showcase the rich cultural heritage that the people of Africa possess and the extent to which they have influenced cultures around the world.
In Brazil, Salvador is the largest Afro-Brazilian metropolitan region and the depth at which the roots of the two peoples are entwined can be seen in one of Brazil's staple dish. Known as Feijoada (a stew comprised of beef and pork), this dish was actually prepared and introduced to Brazil by African slaves and is common in many African regions as well.

The fact that the people of Africa were once brought to Brazil as slaves does not surprise the newer generation as much as their traditions and customs. It’s not uncommon to see the Yoruba traditions on the streets of Brazil during the carnivals and as so many of the people are of Nigerian descent, the Yoruba traditions are clearly understandable to many in Brazil.

Encouraging people of African origin in Brazil to establish their own community and explore their roots has been a top priority for several organisations across the globe. For instance, Lagrant Communications, a firm based in Los Angeles that focuses on African American and Hispanic markets, started a site called Afro-Brazilian.com, which is an active effort towards educating the world about these two similar cultures.

Lagos State in Nigeria plans to host the next cultural showcase that will offer millions of people an opportunity to experience and revel in the rich cultures that Brazil's population of African descendants have to offer. Known as the Lagos Black Heritage Festival, it is an annual event to highlight the reach of African culture to the Mediterranean and beyond, this year the festival has a focus on Brazil, with Thobias de Vai Vai, singer, actor, former leader of Carnival Brazilian and president of the samba school Sao Paolo Vai-Vai being a highlight.

The Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka is the Festival coordinator and under his stewardship the program promises to be exciting, vibrant and highly educational with traditional dances, art exhibitions, contemporary mixes and photo expansions, along with several symposiums and dramas on the schedule.
During the inauguration of the festival, Professor Soyinka explained, “Our children do not understand why we have people who practice Nigerian cultures in Brazil; all they know is that in Brazil they have blacks who are descendants of slaves from Nigeria. They are astonished to see traditions of the Yoruba on streets of places such as Salvador during carnivals”

This year the planning committee were able to rely on expertise from Trico Capital International, a specialist financial advisory practice focused on developing infrastructure projects in West Africa. Their CEO, Austine Ometoruwa [url]twitter.com/AustineOmetoruw[/url], was able to help structure and arrange the financing that enabled the Festival to continue despite early fears about the ability to secure sponsors.

The Lagos Black Heritage Festival opened on the 22nd of December 2012 and is expected to continue until October 2013, with the main festivities running from the 23rd of March until the 1st of April 2013.