Kunle Adelabu
The Medical Director/Chief Executive Officer, General Hospital Ijede, Dr. Olumuyiwa Balogun – Oluwa, has called for strategic partnership and collaboration with stakeholders in Ijede community with the hospital , especially the authorities of the ljede Local Council Development Area, to improve the medical facility’s service delivery.
Dr Oluwa, who said that the hospital , on monthly basis , attended to 18, 000 patients on the average, stressed that such partnership has earned the hospital award as the best in the state, in the recent past.
The medical director made the appeal at the 2027 Budget Stakeholders’ Forum.
”We need more collaboration and partnership with Ijede community, especially the council authorities and stakeholders.
”This is a big hospital which is one of the best in Lagos State, but we need stakeholders’ support and partnership to do more. We want the community to invest and own the facility which is only second to the General Hospital, Ikorodu.
He stressed that GH Ikorodu is progressing in all areas because of the support it has been receiving from stakeholders.
”General Hospital, Ikorodu, is where it is today and still progressing because it has the support of his royal father and other stakeholders. It also has enough land to expand unlike what we are experiencing in Ijede.
While stating that patients that are using the hospital are attesting to its quality delivery and requesting for special status, Dr Oluwa stressed that the two royal fathers and other stakeholders in Ijede LCDA, will also mobilise the community to buy into GH Ijede.
”Ikorodu is enjoying the patronage of its royal father who has been supportive of the hospital and mobilising stakeholders to contribute towards the development of its GH.
”There are also individuals and groups in Ikorodu, who are also contributing to the hospital.
He added: ” Here in Ijede, patients are appreciative of our services and they are requesting for special treatment like private wards where they can be with their wives during delivery. This we have build for them.
”By next year, we will commission the wellness center”, Oluwa said.
The medical director, who said that they are using the internally generated revenue to maintain the medical facility, also stressed that collaboration with the community in the recent past earned the hospital award as the best in the state, and pleaded for the continuation of such collaboration.
”The collaboration in the time past earned General Hospital, Ijede, award as the best in Lagos and we must bring this back and maintain it.
”We are using internally generated revenue to maintain the hospital and also do new projects and we want the support of stakeholders, especially the council, to be able to do more”, Dr Oluwa pleaded.
An APC leader in Ijede LCDA, Alhaji Quadri Jamiu, called for the need for the General Hospital, to have a mortuary to cater for residents instead of going outside the town.
In his own contribution, Alhaji Agoro , also a leader of APC, called on the authorities of Ijede LCDA to secure land for the expansion of the hospital.
Meanwhile, the Vice Chairman of Ijede LCDA, Hon. Femi Kabir, who represented the Chairman at the 2027 Budget Stakeholders’ Forum, assured of the commitment of the council to the provision of adequate medical services to the people of Ijede.
He stressed that the council will continue to collaborate and partner with every Institution and relevant bodies.
Hon. Kabir revealed that the council has made seven efforts to get part of the massive land allocated to the Egbin Thermal PLC, but the change of ownership from government to private has made it difficult.
He, however, assured stakeholders and residents that the administration is still committed to the expansion of GH Ijede.
