Leadership (Abuja)
2 January 2009
The Wife of the Lagos State Governor, Mrs Abimbola Fashola, yesterday presented gifts to eight babies delivered on New year in Lagos.
The babies, seven females and one male, were born between 12:01 am and 6:25 am yesterday at three government hospitals in Lagos State.
Two sets of female twins were delivered at the Lagos Island General Hospital, while two females were delivered at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ayinke House, and one female and one male at the Gbagada General Hospital.
Speaking at the presentation ceremony, Fashola described the event as a joyous day to welcome the first babies of the year.
She said that the new year would witness greater improvement in health care delivery, given the number of facilities that had been upgraded in LASUTH and the planned renovation and infrastructural refurbishment in the New Year.
She, however, enjoined the mothers of the babies to breastfeed them exclusively for the first six months as well as adhere strictly to their immunisation schedules.
Also speaking, the Chief Medical Director of LASUTH, Dr Femi Olugbile, said that the occasion was an annual joyous event to start the year on a good note.
Olugbile noted that the hospital building, donated to the state government in 1990 by Late Sir Mobolaji Bank-Anthony, delivers 300 babies monthly.
Some of the parents of the babies, who spoke to NAN, said that they were full of joy as their babies emerged as babies of the year.
Mrs Olanike Oshonaiye, 32, said that she had been praying for her baby to be delivered on the new year day.
"I am very happy for everything. I thank the Lagos State government for the gift and love shown us," she said.
Mrs Elizabeth Okechukwu, 27, said that God had given her double blessing in 2009 and that she would always remember the event of the day.
Also speaking, the Lagos Commissioner for Health, Dr Jide Idris, said that Ayinke House would be renovated this year as soon as three out of the six maternal and childcare centres under construction were completed. (NAN)
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