Committee of Wives of Lagos State Officials (COWLSO) on Tuesday donated 32 neo-natal incubators to 13 government hospitals, and six birthing suites to Lagos Island Maternity, Amuwo Maternal and Child Centre, as well as Epe General Hospital.
Chairman of COWLSO and wife of Lagos State Governor, Bolanle Ambode, accompanied by wife of Lagos State Governor-elect, Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, led the committee’s project team on inspection and handing-over of the items.
Mrs Ambode said that their vision for pregnant women in the state was for them to have access to world class delivery facilities in public hospitals.
She said: “My vision and that of COWLSO, is that in Lagos State, any pregnant woman, regardless of origin, economic status and location, will have access to quality and safe child delivery experience that is in line with international best practice, in any of our public hospitals, at a minimal cost’.
“Childbirth has always been one of the life-changing experiences that women go through. Different women go into labour having different emotions and expectations about the process and outcome. There is hardly a woman who had been in labour that would not remember that experience, many years after.”
She stressed that the committee envisioned that the model would be replicated in other government health facilities in future.
Responding on behalf of benefitting hospitals, medical director of Lagos Island Maternity Hospital, Dr. Ademuyiwa Eniayewun, expressed appreciation for yet another enviable intervention and laudable achievement of COWLSO.
He assured the committee that the hospitals would put the facilities to good use.
