St. Nicholas Hospital, Lagos
Description
The hospital's 14-storey mixed-use high-rise building (St. Nicholas house) was designed by FMA Architects Ltd. The building's users includes several companies' offices with modern amenities and multilevel parking. The building is adjacent to King's College Lagos, Holy Cross Cathedral, Lagos and Lagos City Hall. The hospital spans five floors of the building with an outpatient clinic and emergency services on the ground floor.
Milestones
St. Nicholas hospital has become a leading organ transplant centre in Nigeria, performing the first renal transplantation treatment, the first kidney transplant in Nigeria and the first paediatric kidney transplant in West Africa.
Services
- Nephrology
- Medical and Emergency
- Intensive Care
- Preventive Health Screen
- Colonoscopy and Endoscopy
- General Medicine
- Nursing care
- Cardiology
- Paediatrics
- Antenatal Care
- Diagnostic Imaging
- Clinical Laboratory
- Surgery
- Radiology
- Family Medicine
- Physiotherapy
- Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Oncology
- Nutrition and dietetics
- Dermatology
- Dialysis
- Pharmacy
- Health Assessment
Fire incident
On 3 February 2014, 9:00 a.m. WST – At approximately 5:55 p.m. on Sunday, 2 February 2014, there was a fire on the 9th floor of the building. Urgent action was taken to extinguish the fire, the cause of which was believed to be an electrical problem.
See also
References
- ^ Dr Irehobhude O Iyioha; Dr Remigius N Nwabuez (28 February 2015). Comparative Health Law and Policy: Critical Perspectives on Nigerian and Global Health Law. Ashgate Publishing. p. 220. ISBN 9781472436757.
- ^ "St. Nicholas Hospital".
- ^ "Fire guts 9th floor of St . Nicholas". PM News. Retrieved 12 September 2014.