Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) has officially unveiled ‘Project Eagle’ aimed at improving the quality of healthcare services delivered to patients in the state and Nigeria at large.
The project, which was officially launched at the hospital yesterday, is part of the LASUTH management’s commitment and resolve to providing excellent health care services to the people of Lagos State and Nigerians in general, with the use of modern state-of-the-art equipment and committed staff to achieve the objective.
According to the Medical Director, Prof. Adetokunbo Fabamwo, the board and management of the hospital embarked on a number of laudable projects under the “Project Eagle’, to bring innovation and accessible healthcare services to the people of Lagos and environs.
He listed the components of the project to include: Enforcing existing proactive management policies, active space/bed management policies, commencement of an adverse report registers and management system, more intensive and regular Staff training and retraining, advocacy to reduce the influx of non-tertiary patients coming to LASUTH, automation, international accreditation and formalise collaboration with highbrow private hospitals in Lagos.
On the issue of power supply, the medical director said, it remains a key requisite to delivering quality healthcare services.
He said for some time now, the Mainland Independent Power Plant (IPP) has been unable to keep up with giving the hospital regular power supply.
Fabamwo said in response to the persistent lobbying by the hospital management, the governor of the state has granted the delivery of three brand new 500 KVA generators to the hospital.
This, he said, will further aid the efforts of the hospital to effectively deliver quality healthcare services.
He also stressed that a number of policies have been enacted to improve the hospital’s healthcare services and its patient’s experience, especially the reduction of waiting times at the outpatient clinics, increasing the number of clinics to attend to the high number of patients coming to the hospital as well as improving in-patient care and provision of mini ambulances to move patients within the hospital among other policies.
The Chief Medical Director said, as an institution that is keen on improving its services, the hospital commenced the use of bed space managers who work in tandem with a team of nurses called ‘monitoring crew’ to ensure speedy transfers of stable patients from the emergency units to the wards, in order to ensure spaces would be created for incoming patients.
He added that the ongoing construction of the 120-bed facility within the hospital, which is expected to alleviate in a substantial way, the issue of bed space constriction in the hospital, is at 70 per cent completion.
According to him, efforts are on to improve on the hospital’s adverse report register where all incidents and near misses are documented to enhance processes and systems for immediate and long-term solutions in order to minimise recurrence of adverse events.
He noted that the hospital, towards ensuring that blood transfusion services are always available, has secured the establishment of a Lagos State Blood Transfusion Services Centre in LASUTH to augment the services of its blood bank.
On its specialised clinical services, the medical director said LASUTH has continued to perform successful heart surgeries with its team of surgeons as well as cochlear implant, microvascular surgeries, interventional radiology, kidney transplantation and endo-urology among others.
“Our catheterisation laboratory is almost complete and when it is, LASUTH becomes the only public hospital in Nigeria that offers services to patients who suffer heart attacks and provide evasive procedure intervention to those who have pulmonary embolism,” he said.
Fabamwo, however, noted that in keeping with the hospital’s aim of becoming a quaternary healthcare delivery institution, steps are being taken to ensure full automation of all the hospital services.
He said the hospital management is also driving towards the establishment of best global healthcare standards and practices as they embark on the journey towards international accreditation.
