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Jubril A. Gawat @Mr_JAGs

UPDATE: Governor of Lagos, Mr @jidesanwoolu today performed an inspection tour of the Brand New Massey Children Hospital.

The Hospital is a 7-Storey fit for purpose Paediatrics and Emergency General Hospital, which will be the biggest children’s hospital in the country and Sub Saharan Africa.

The Groundbreaking and flag off of this Legacy Project was done by Governor Sanwo-Olu on the 28th April, 2021.

So far, the 10-floor car park has been completed, the hospital building has one more floor to be done, which will also include a helipad.

Mr Governor says this is a promised kept, and assured Lagosians that this project will be completed, while the regeneration of Lagos Island will continue.

#MasseyHospital
#GreaterLagosRising

Jubril A. Gawat @Mr_JAGs

Pic 1: Illegal Mechanic Village

Pic 2: Land Cleared

Pic 3: Groundbreaking

Pic 4: Finished product (when completed)

#MasseyHospital
#GreaterLagosRising

naptu2:
Dr Isaac Oluwole


The newly elected members of the Town Council started to make a push for the employment of an African medical officer for public health in the Lagos Municipal Board of Health. In 1924, the council decided to recruit an African who could speak the local language. Three people were interviewed and Dr Isaac Ladipo Oluwole was selected.

Dr Isaac Oluwole was the son of the famous Bishop Isaac Oluwole (Bishop Oluwole Street on Victoria Island was named after him), a Saro clergyman who had served as the second principal of CMS Grammar School from 1879-1893 (he succeeded the Reverend Babington Macaulay, Herbert Macaulay's father).

Dr Isaac Oluwole attended CMS Grammar School before transferring to Kings College Lagos where he met James Churchill Vaughan. He was among the pioneer students and in fact he was the first senior prefect of Kings College.

He and James Churchill Vaughan both studied medicine at the University of Glasgow (where they suffered racial prejudice) from 1913 to 1918.

He returned to Nigeria and went into private practice in Abeokuta before returning to Glasgow to bag a doctorate degree in public health.

The Lagos Town Council employed Dr Oluwole as a medical officer, but he had to undergo further training in public health administration. In 1925, he started work as the first African assistant medical officer of health in Lagos.

Developing and improving the healthcare system in Lagos

In 1917, Lagos passed the public health ordinance, a series of health regulations to improve sanitation in the city. However, implementation of the rules was hampered by the limited number of trained personnel. Dr Oluwole then founded the first School of Hygiene in Nigeria, at Yaba, Lagos, providing training to sanitary inspectors from all parts of Nigeria. On graduation they obtained the Diploma of the Royal Institute of Public Health, London.


He re-organised sanitary inspection procedures in the port of Lagos to control the spread of bubonic plague. He also set up the West African Board of the Royal Society of Health that became the foundation of standards of public health in Nigeria.

The plague, breaking out in unsanitary shanty towns in Lagos, caused many deaths between 1924 and 1930. Many of the slums were demolished, forcing their inhabitants to resettle into the unregulated suburbs.


Massey Street Hospital

Among other achievements, Oluwole opened the Massey Street Dispensary, reclaimed swampy islands to aid in malaria control and built a new abattoir to improve food hygiene. Oluwole started the first school health services in Lagos in 1925. He introduced regular sanitary inspections and vaccinations of children. Oluwole was appointed Medical Officer of Health in 1936.


Through the efforts of Oluwole, the Lagos Town Council established the Massey dispensary in 1926. A department of antenatal and child welfare services was created to be part of the new dispensary. This was the first measure in the city to create a distinct maternity and child services program within the Lagos Public Health department. The new antenatal clinic's major objective was to reduce the incidence of child and maternal mortality in Lagos. From 1926 to 1930, the Massey dispensary created programs such infant welfare clinics that were held thrice weekly and an organised a children's ward. Due to the success of the Massey clinic another clinic was established for the Lagos mainland residents in Ebute Metta. The clinic also organised programs to treat health visitors and mid-wives who advised patients during clinic hours. The health visitors also visited discharged patients to check on their welfare and promote good health practices.

The Lagos State Government is about to build a new Massey Street Children's Hospital. The land has been cleared and construction works are about to begin. However, the new Massey Street Children's Hopital is on. . . Adeniji Adele Road, not on Massey Street.

There is no room for expansion at the site of the iconic Massey Street Children's Hospital and so the government had to look for land nearby to build a much bigger hospital and that land is on Adeniji Adele Road.


School Health Service

Oluwole also focused his attention on school age children. Though, hygiene was taught in many schools, it was mostly theoretical and lacked practical and visual demonstrations. In 1927, he visited about 57 schools in the Lagos area where he inspected the sanitary conditions of the schools; a year later he made similar trips. Oluwole saw some shortcomings in the sanitary conditions of the schools and proposed some remedies. In 1930, regulations were enacted that made it necessary for mandatory sanitary inspections of schools and also health inspection of students every three years. The major objective was to discover ailments some children have contracted, to provide medical treatment to alleviate the ailments and educate school teachers about better practices in hygiene and sanitation.

In 1940 Oluwole was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE). When he died in 1953 he was recognised as the father of public health in Nigeria.

Photos of the iconic and first Massey Street Children's Hospital.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvL5q9IxXAE?si=1oLGkDe1Pyza0zXf

AJE @Riddwane

FLASH: Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on site inspection of the biggest Paediatric Hospital in sub-Saharan Africa — the 7-storey New Massey Children Hospital — being constructed by LASG on the Lagos Island. The hospital has a 10-floor multilevel car park.

@jidesanwoolu

Babajide Sanwo-Olu @jidesanwoolu

Today, I went on an inspection tour of the New Massey Children’s Hospital, a seven-story pediatric facility situated on Adeniji Adele Road. Once completed, it will be the largest children’s hospital in sub-Saharan Africa, serving future generations.

We broke ground for this project in April 2021, with construction commencing in earnest in 2022. This new hospital will replace the existing Massey Hospital, which has been a institution for over a century but is struggling to meet the rising demand for pediatric care.

The new facility will feature an Independent Power Plant and a multi-level parking structure. I’m pleased to report that the project is progressing on schedule, with major civil work set to be completed by the end of this year

We are committed to creating a state-of-the-art facility that addresses the healthcare needs of our community, and I am confident this project will significantly enhance healthcare capacity in Lagos.

Babajide Sanwo-Olu @jidesanwoolu

The construction of the new 150-bed, state-of-the-art Massey Children Hospital is underway, offering the promise of advanced care and a nurturing environment for our children.

Together, we are building a foundation for growth, hope, good health, and well-being.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FwhrhuJMfs?si=7hde3DFOJbBPl-6C

We need more development in all sectors. Good work.

Workaholic gov

Nice.

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Kudos to Sanwo-Olu. He is the best performing Governor of the South West.

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Ojo General Hospital is at completion stage. Another gigantic project by this administration

Ok

Yorubaland is making progress

God bless Yorubaland

Haters will always hate

Eko too much joor.

Developers hiding in Lagos won’t like this news….they’re like the Islamic terrorists. They’ve destroyed their land with bia,fraud agitation, ran to Lagos and are now looking for a way to turn Lagos into their SE, where everyone sits at home

God bless true Nigerians

Devil punish ipob/esn tellolists, their supporters online and offline…may the land of Nigeria continue to swallow them all—Amen

When it's time to commission the project, Hope Uzodinma will fly into Lagos, join Sanwo-Olu to commission it and share it on his X handle. That man is a constant reminder that a man can be rich and dense at the same time.

PS: Just check out the plan for the car park! Only three states/places build world-class projects - Lagos, Abuja and Akwa Ibom. Others na mediocres!

Nice one bro

To the wailers and haters, I guess this news is also propaganda. 😂 🤣 🤩
Awon werey... Hisses.
EKO o ni baje.
Nigeria shall be great again.
✊✊

Dis will be huge... Dis is a thousand times better than investing in a brewery

Isaac Oluwole father of environmental health in Nigeria

naptu2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvL5q9IxXAE?si=1oLGkDe1Pyza0zXf

AJE @Riddwane

great, thanks for this educative and informative post….has an aborigine of Lagos, i always appreciate those that try to put the history of Lagos in the right context and educate the ignorant ones who always try to distort and misrepresent the history of Lagos.

Lagos state is trying but they should speed up their project completion time

This is good the state will generate money with it

Pls make it public private partnership so it can be maintained

Lagos is just on another level.

ipobcannibals:
Developers hiding in Lagos won’t like this news….they’re like the Islamic terrorists. They’ve destroyed their land with bia,fraud agitation, ran to Lagos and are now looking for a way to turn Lagos into their SE, where everyone sits at home

God bless true Nigerians

Devil punish ipob/esn tellolists, their supporters online and offline…may the land of Nigeria continue to swallow them all—Amen

This is too much, anyway aseeeeee

Lagos is trying sha. Kudos to them. What is Delta state doing?

yoruboid:
Yorubaland is making progress

God bless Yorubaland

Haters will always hate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3Nitsv250k&t=426s


this is a 350 bed hospital in Enugu sir.........let us not talk of private hospitals in southeast! nobody is hating yorubaland, you are the one in pain when others make progress! In time Patric mba the governor will restart work on this hospital...........the returning Igbo population is in need of good standard medical care!

ipobcannibals:
Developers hiding in Lagos won’t like this news….they’re like the Islamic terrorists. They’ve destroyed their land with bia,fraud agitation, ran to Lagos and are now looking for a way to turn Lagos into their SE, where everyone sits at home

God bless true Nigerians

Devil punish ipob/esn tellolists, their supporters online and offline…may the land of Nigeria continue to swallow them all—Amen

The evil you wish for others may befall you if you are not careful, despite the massive marginalization of Ndigbo, we are still able to attract a level of international investment............the red flag operations of Naija security agencies will not stop the gradual turnaround of the socio-economic sector in alaigbo!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvU2D1LRLSQ

OluwaSegun0509:
To the wailers and haters, I guess this news is also propaganda. 😂 🤣 🤩
Awon werey... Hisses.
EKO o ni baje.
Nigeria shall be great again.
✊✊

The problem with ndiyoruba is that you want all the good news to be solely domiciled in Yorubaland, your envy and jealousy can no longer be hidden, we have seen how you wield political power.................hubris and haughtiness will be your downfall!



What we have done in lagos we will replicate in greater measure inAlaigbo !........sanwaolu,mc oluome and what is that commissioner of house demolition....we thank you guys for giving our people a rude wake up call!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZYlTxp6SdE






I fully participated in the movement of the infamous Idumota spare parts market to the trade fair in Ojo in 1999 -2000............. Other ethnic groups also participated but the livewire was the Igbo spirit......since then 5 other associated markets have moved from the island to the trade fair complex! I urge my Igbo brothers to remain wise and avoid the mistake of putting all your jewels in one basket! The people we are dealing with have poison in their hearts and venom in their tongues........... The Enugu Lion business park is under construction now.........spread your investment around Alaigbo................. Benin City is 30 minutes from Agbor, Agbor is 30 minutes from Umunede, Umunede is 30 minutes from Asaba, Asaba is 30 minutes or even less from the center of Onitsha commercial center, Onitsha is 30 minutes from Awka ....Awka is 30 minutes from Enugu..........that axis is a booming region, if you transpose this line of urban centers into Texas............it will all be contained in the city of Houston and its suburbs................ My people come home, the world is in flux, and World War 3 may even be at our doorsteps, better to be near home in uncertain times. Leave lagos for ndiyoruba





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd4GrDFqHe4

No matter the level of developments in Lagos, it will never be enough with the way people from other regions are running away to Lagos.

Demajor2022:
No matter the level of developments in Lagos, it will never be enough with the way people from other regions are running away to Lagos.

lagos is part of Nigeria sir, unless you are tired of the union!

Abufo:
The evil you wish for others may befall you if you are not careful, despite the massive marginalization of Ndigbo, we are still able to attract a level of international investment............the red flag operations of Naija security agencies will not stop the gradual turnaround of the socio-economic sector in alaigbo!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvU2D1LRLSQ

As usual, you throw the first punch and when others react, you cry victim…..na devil go punish all liars like you. In the last 20yrs, who have been wishing evil unto others, simply because they lost an election?
In the days of your hunchback namadi cownu in his radio bia.fraud, who heaped insults upon insults on others, especially on Fulani and Yoruba?

Who pronounced death on president Buhari and said he’s been replaced by Jubilee from Sudan?

Who called for the killings of Gov Sawon Olu and Tinubu during end SARS?

Who called for the killing of Pastor Kumuyi, simply because he’s a Yoruba pastor?

Who called other non-Igbos animals in the zoo?

Who ordered for the killings of Nigerian security personnel in the SE?

In all these, not one of you, not even the so-called shameless elders from that cursed land cautioned namadi cownu. Today, you denial artists are crying victim..,,The gig is up,,,other Nigerians are marching you to your game

As usual SE governors won't do any tangible projects like this. Since Dave Umahi left governance, you hardly hear about projects of these magnitude from the zone. Imagine governor soludo proposing a bill to remit part of LG funds to consolidated account of the state. Since the Julius Berger sign post by Alex Otti, no news about it. He is busy setting up committee for minimum wagewage, when other state like Lagos, Adamawa, Benin and others started paying.
No SE state governors is paying the new minimum wage. What does that tell you? Evil and wickedness