Estate surveyors have shown interest in reshaping the Nigeria’s healthcare with an ultra-modern world-class health facility christened Saint Davis Hospital in an ancient town of Ada, in Boripe Local Government Area of Osun State.
The proprietor of Mount Davis Hospital, Bode Adediji, who is also the Group executive chairman and principal partner of Bode Adediji Partnership, a foremost firm of Estate Surveyors, Valuers and Real Estate Consultants based in Lagos, said that the multi-million Naira hospital is “basically an inspiration from God” saying, “each time I came home to Ada, I came across situations of various types of untimely, undeserved, premature, accidental and mysterious deaths.”
According to him, a pertinent question usually bugged him; “Can something be done to curtail all these incidents? Then, the inspiration for the hospital came as a result of that!” He pointed out that what cannot be argued is the fact that two or three things usually make up an efficient and effective world-class hospital. These, he said, include physical edifice, equipment, and human capital – the medical professionals available. “To God be the Glory”, he said, “We have been able to accomplish all these towards achieving the best diagnosis and treatment of patients.”
Also speaking Adediji, a past President of the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers (NIESV), said that the hospital is not built for the people of Ada and environs alone but it is proposed to be a referral centre whereby people from across the country and beyond would come for consultation and treatment by world-class specialists.
He further said that another objective for the hospital is to become the centre for a medical mission when Nigerian and foreign medical practitioners alike, backed up by foreign and local philanthropists can converge on Ada as a team for medical researches without finance being an impediment.
In this regard, MDH, as time goes on, Adediji disclosed, shall become a centre of medical excellence that will be patronised by Nigerians and people from all over the continent.
He said, “It is for this reason that we have designed and constructed a complex having the medical blocks in front and residential blocks at the back to cater for the accommodation of doctors, nurses and other categories of hospital workers.
“Aside from my family, God has been gracious to send various kinds of divine helpers to us at every stage of its conceptualization, design and construction, the equipping and of course, the operational phase of the hospital,” Adediji remarked.
Olatunde Adejumo, Resident Doctor at the MDH, said his vision for the hospital is to ensure that the international standard on the ground is duly maintained and adequately improved upon. He declared that the facilities already on the ground include a top-notch theatre, two labour rooms, one postnatal ward, two surgical wards (male and female) each furnished with 10 beds, a well-equipped laboratory and pharmacy.
