Gov Ambode of Lagos State
Lagos
State will tomorrow play host to President Muhammadu Buhari as he
arrives to commission landmark projects including Ayinke House, a
maternity hospital executed by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos
State and 5,000 brand new buses to make transportation easy in the
state.
Other
projects to be commissioned by the president are Oshodi Transport
Interchange, Oshodi International Airport Road, Eko Theatre among
others.
The
Chief Press Secretary, CPS, to Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, Habeeb
Haruna said the Ayinke House, which is said to be the biggest
Maternity Hospital in Nigeria, was upgraded by the administration of
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode.
The
hospital, located within the premises of the Lagos University
Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, Ikeja, is an ultramodern 170- bed
Obstetrics and Gynecology specialist hospital.
The
CPS explained that the hospital was conceived to help in reducing
cases of newborn and maternal deaths and it boasts of
state-of-the-art equipment specifically designed to cater for the
health and well-being of mothers and newborns.
The
new Ayinke House maternity also has 30 incubators with automatic
oxygen delivery capacity, neonatal life support, five operating
theatres and oxygen plants.
The
hospital was upgraded from an 80-bed hospital to a 170-bed facility.
According
to him, "Already, Doctors and other medical staff have been
employed and incorporated into the operations of the foremost
tertiary medical institution, LASUTH, while it has been confirmed
that Ayinke House will rank alongside hospitals in other parts of the
world and boast of high-level technology befitting of a tertiary
institution.
"In
2016, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode unveiled the Oshodi Transport
Interchange designed to transform Oshodi to a world-class transport
centre and end all notorious activities in the area.
"The
interchange was constructed on the public-private partnership (PPP)
arrangement.
"The
interchange has 18 lifts; six each for the three terminals that are
equipped with CCTV, with the capacity to enable one predict when a
bus would arrive at the terminal.
"The
Interchange will have three terminals. The first terminal will cater
for inter-city transportation, where all buses going out of the state
will take off and drop passengers on return. The second terminal will
be solely for the Bus Rapid Transit, BRT scheme, that will cater for
passengers commuting from Oshodi to Abule Egba, Okokomaiko, LASU and
so on.
"The
third terminal will cater for passengers navigating Oshodi to Ikoyi,
Lagos Island, Surulere, Victoria Island, Ikorodu, among others. The
Oshodi project will also make provision for a mega shopping mall to
be built through a Public-Private Partnership, PPP, agreements at the
third terminal. The three terminals will serve 1,000 modern buses.
The terminals will also have 1,000 light effects to project the
aesthetic of the ambiance.
"Specifically,
the design of the project include the reconstruction and expansion of
the existing carriage to three-lane Expressway on both directions,
construction of two-lane Service Road in both directions,
construction of Ramp Bridge to provide a U-turn from Ajao Estate to
Airport, construction of a flyover at NAHCO/Toll Gate and drainage
works," he said.
Others
include the removal of existing Pedestrian Bridge at Ajao Estate and
construction of Pedestrian Bridges at Ajao Estate and NAHCO/Hajj
Camp, construction of Slip Road.
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