The Duchess International Hospital has performed 26 successful open heart surgeries as it marks its second anniversary of providing affordable healthcare services to all Nigerians.
The CEO of Duchess International Hospital, Adetokunbo Shitta-Bey, disclosed this to newsmen at the weekend in Lagos during a press conference to mark the hospital’s anniversary.
Shitta-Bey affirmed that the Duchess International Hospital is a metaphor of what Nigeria’s healthcare should be, adding; “The hospital speaks to what our country yearns for, which is to reverse medical tourism by delivering the highest standard of care using the most advanced technology and expertise. Our vision is to become Africans’ favourite hospital and an international healthcare provider they can trust and we have been able to achieve that by providing quality healthcare services to Africans, at an affordable price, over the past two years”.
Shitta-Bey said the hospital’s goal is to give back to the society.
“To make that happen, we have partnered with Save A Heart Foundation, to bring Nigerians in the public sector who have been on the waiting list for life-saving heart surgery into the private sector, to benefit from the world-class equipment here at Duchess International Hospital.
“For the past few weeks, we were able to assist about 12 patients who were on the waiting list at a public hospital and it could have taken up to six months to get to their turn. We successfully performed open heart surgeries on them at a very affordable cost. By the end of today, we would have, in this hospital, performed 26 life-saving open heart surgeries”, he said.
