The facility was also equipped with 2
Bubble CPAP Machine Systems, 1 Neo Puff F/P Resuscitator, 12 Phototherapy
units, 2 Pulse Oximeters, 8 baby incubators and 4 Multiparameter monitors, 6
infusion pumps, 6 Humidifiers continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP)
Spares, 1 ISTAT Blood Gas Machine and two weighing scales.
Kufre Ekanem, Corporate Affairs
Adviser, Nigerian Breweries Plc, representing Johan Doyer, Managing Director/Chief
Executive Officer, Nigerian Breweries Plc revealed that the Heineken Africa
Foundation partners with Heineken Operating Companies like Nigerian Breweries
Plc, in Africa to execute projects in communities identified with health and
water challenges.
“The Heineken Africa Foundation was
established to support projects that improve healthcare and water supply for
communities in Sub-Saharan Africa where access to basic healthcare and clean
water poses a challenge,” Ekanem said.
Ekanem further stressed that the
donation is in line with Nigerian Breweries philosophy of winning with Nigeria.
“As we win with Nigeria, we want other sectors of the economy to win and have
significant growth that would positively affect the lives of the people,” he
said.
Professor Chris Bode, Chief Medical
Director of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, represented by
Professor Olufemi Fasanmade expressed his profound gratitude to Heineken Africa
Foundation and Nigerian Breweries Plc, commending the donation as phenomenal
and comparable to none embarked upon by any corporate organization in the
country.
“Nigerian Breweries Plc and Heineken
Africa Foundation has brought succor to our aged infrastructures in LUTH which
will save over 400 new borns that come to us through referrals monthly,” he
said.
Professor Chinyere Ezeaka, Head, Neo
Natology, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH and President, Nigerian
Society of Neonatal Medicine, NISONM, revealed that the facilities provided by
HAF and NB will help challenge the index record which placed Nigeria as the
country with the highest infant mortality rate in Africa and second highest
infant mortality rate in the world. She applauded their commitment to
healthcare and called on other organizations to take giant strides in the
direction that the nation’s foremost brewer and its mother company, Heineken,
has set.
Other guests present at the
commissioning ceremony included Honourable Bolaji Yusuf Ayinla, member, Federal
House of Representatives, Mushin II Constituency, Lagos, Mrs. Christiana
Odiazikwor, Public Relations Officer, National Agency for Food and Drug
Administration and Control (NAFDAC) who also represented the acting Director of
NAFDAC as well as other professors of medicine, doctors, nurses, students and
other staff of the hospital.
Since its inception in 2007, the
Heineken Africa Foundation in collaboration with operating companies of
Heineken in Africa has committed over €7.2 million to support over 83 projects
focused on health and water across the African continent.
In Nigeria, the
collaboration between the foundation and Nigerian Breweries has impacted
Vesicovaginal fistula, autism, accident and emergency care, among other medical
specialties across Nigeria.
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