Duchess International Hospital, Ikeja GRA, Lagos, has been voted the Private Tertiary Healthcare Facility of the Year 2024.
In a keenly contested nationwide voting process with nominees including several prominent and high-profile Nigerian hospitals, Duchess Hospital came first in the private tertiary healthcare facility of the year category.
This award comes less than three years following the opening of the state-of-the-art medical facility, an indication of the remarkable achievement and hardwork of the staff and management and their dedication to providing access to affordable quality healthcare on behalf of Nigerians.
The Nigeria Healthcare Excellence Awards (NHEA), established in 2014, were designed to celebrate personalities and organisations who have contributed immensely to the growth and development of the Nigerian healthcare sector.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Duchess International Hospital, Dr Adetokunbo Shitta-Bey, speaking on the award at a media briefing, said the Duchess Hospital had set out in October 2021 with a clearly articulated vision to become “Africa’s favourite hospital” and a mission to “reverse medical tourism by delivering the highest standards of care.”.
He highlighted the hospital’s key strategic priorities aimed at delivering access to affordable, world-class healthcare even as a tertiary care hospital through the most advanced technology and treatments.
According to him, this had ensured that the hospital was able to provide a range of specialised diagnostic and treatment interventions that enabled it to serve as a hub for inbound medical tourism and a referral centre for complex medical care from primary and secondary care centres and hospitals across the country and abroad.
Dr Shitta-Bey listed some of the hospital’s important milestone achievements in the last three years to include a groundbreaking 12-hour complex breast reconstruction, routinely performed reconstructive plastic surgery, and complex orthopaedic surgery procedures, including knee and hip replacements, complex operations on the brain and spine, and a thriving and highly successful open heart surgery programme.
Shitta-Bey reiterated the hospital’s commitment to delivering access to affordable, world-class healthcare for all Nigerians.
He stated, despite these achievements, that patient registration at the Duchess Hospital has remained at N5, 000 since the inception of the hospital and will continue to be charged at N5,000 for all patients and for the foreseeable future.
Dr Adeyemi Onabowale, Chairman of the Duchess International Hospital and the Reddington Hospital Group, declared in a remark that the hospital has been able to transform the lives of numerous Nigerians, bring joy to homes through affordable quality healthcare, and reduce the trend of medical tourism abroad in less than three years of its operation and existence”.
He further stated that “this was achieved in a difficult operating environment marked by high inflation, a high cost of electricity, and low purchasing power, affecting many Nigerians.”.
Dr Onabowale commended the staff and management of the Duchess International Hospital for their dedication and charged them to continue to put the selfless service of saving lives above any other consideration.
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