Wife of the Lagos State Governor, Mrs. Abimbola Fashola
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| credits: thenetng.com
The wife of the Lagos State Governor, Mrs. Abimbola Fashola, has said the state government needs the support of private individuals to help improve the health sector.
Fashola spoke on Monday during the inauguration of an Intensive Care Unit belonging to the Holy Trinity Hospital, in Ikeja area of Lagos.
While commending the management of the hospital for keeping the legacy of its late founder, Pa Victor Awosika, she urged the gathering to make their living count by making contributions that would outlive them.
She said, “The government alone cannot do it. We need more collaboration like this as started by Pa Awosika, so that when we leave the earth, people will always have something for which to remember us.”
The occasion was part of a week-long activities marking the commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the founder’s death.
The majority leader of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Dr. Ajibayo Adeyeye, said the facility had increased the health chances of residents, especially those suffering from critical ailments.
“The majority of ICUs, are owned by government hospitals. Private hospitals doing things like this will ensure the people that have strokes, major surgeries have a chance to survive. It will also expand the number of ICUs in Lagos State,” he added.
The Provost of the College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Professor Folashade Ogunshola, said she met the late Awosika while she was a young physician at the Holy Trinity Hospital between 1987 and 1989.
She narrated how downcast she had felt after a child died under her watch and while waiting for reprimands, she got what changed her life.
She said, “The boy’s father commended the care the hospital and I in particular gave the child. The second and most important was chief’s action, which literarily blew my mind. He wrote a letter which was circulated to everyone in the hospital about how a great doctor I was, that a parent could come to praise my work even though his child died under my watch. I still have that letter today. It is wrinkled and brown with age, but it still acts as my professional standard.”
The deceased’s widow, Mrs. Winifred Awosika, regaled the audience with precious memories she had with her late husband before he passed away in October 1989.
She said, “He made me comfortable and was very hardworking. He took care of me and my children. He was a good father; anywhere he went, he always took his children along with him.
“He had something good to say about everybody. He was a happy man who spent his life pursuing his hobbies. He was always in a hurry and he made us to be in a hurry with him.”
Fashola spoke on Monday during the inauguration of an Intensive Care Unit belonging to the Holy Trinity Hospital, in Ikeja area of Lagos.
While commending the management of the hospital for keeping the legacy of its late founder, Pa Victor Awosika, she urged the gathering to make their living count by making contributions that would outlive them.
She said, “The government alone cannot do it. We need more collaboration like this as started by Pa Awosika, so that when we leave the earth, people will always have something for which to remember us.”
The occasion was part of a week-long activities marking the commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the founder’s death.
The majority leader of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Dr. Ajibayo Adeyeye, said the facility had increased the health chances of residents, especially those suffering from critical ailments.
“The majority of ICUs, are owned by government hospitals. Private hospitals doing things like this will ensure the people that have strokes, major surgeries have a chance to survive. It will also expand the number of ICUs in Lagos State,” he added.
The Provost of the College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Professor Folashade Ogunshola, said she met the late Awosika while she was a young physician at the Holy Trinity Hospital between 1987 and 1989.
She narrated how downcast she had felt after a child died under her watch and while waiting for reprimands, she got what changed her life.
She said, “The boy’s father commended the care the hospital and I in particular gave the child. The second and most important was chief’s action, which literarily blew my mind. He wrote a letter which was circulated to everyone in the hospital about how a great doctor I was, that a parent could come to praise my work even though his child died under my watch. I still have that letter today. It is wrinkled and brown with age, but it still acts as my professional standard.”
The deceased’s widow, Mrs. Winifred Awosika, regaled the audience with precious memories she had with her late husband before he passed away in October 1989.
She said, “He made me comfortable and was very hardworking. He took care of me and my children. He was a good father; anywhere he went, he always took his children along with him.
“He had something good to say about everybody. He was a happy man who spent his life pursuing his hobbies. He was always in a hurry and he made us to be in a hurry with him.”
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