The Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Health Services on Monday lauded and rewarded two nurses at Isolo General Hospital with N200, 000 for outstanding healthcare service delivery.
The Chairman of the Committee, Mr Segun Olulade and a committee member, Mr Jude Idimogu both honoured Nurses Adefolakemi Oladimeji and Olufunmilayo Oyekunle upon the joint recommendations by the patients.
The committee led by Olulade were on oversight to the hospital.
Olulade was amazed when patients at the Ante Natal Section of the hospital jointly called on the lawmakers to appreciate the two nurses for exceptional healthcare service to the people.
According to them, despised the huge number of patients the nurses have to attend to daily, they do their work cheerfully with good attitude.
Speaking on behalf of over 100 expectant mothers at the section, Mrs Amaka Onyekwele and Mrs Veronica Ekong described the nurses as being “good, loving and caring.”
Onyekwele said: ” I recommend them because these nurses are very wonderful, well-behaved, perfect in service and listening even in the face of provocations.
“These people are doing their jobs well even when they have to attend to so many patients in a day.”
The pregnant woman, however, urged the government to engage more hands to reduce loads of work on the few nurses and doctors in the hospital.
She added: “I stood for so many hours before I was attended to because only one doctor is available to attend to more than 50 persons.
“I was given a query in the office last week because I could not make the time I was expected to return to office after the ante natal, we need more personnel.”
Also speaking, Ekong described the two nurses as very receptive, calm and listening, adding “these nurses are not rude, touchy and harsh in their attitude as some others are”.
Olulade said: “I am sincerely impressed by this overwhelming recommendations of about 100 pregnant women for these two nurses. This is what we want.
“These two are the true face and ambassadors of the state government. This kind of attitude is what we preach all over our public health facilities. Patients require love and calm, not abuses.”
The lawmaker urged all personnel in public healthcare facilities to be professional and stop being rude to patients.
Olulade added that he would send recommendations letters to Oladimeji and Oyekunle for their outstanding professional service from his Eleniyancares Foundation.
The committee, which visited several sections of the hospital, inquired from patients their challenges and how to serve the better.
Prominent among the complaints of patients were inadequate personnel, unavailability of drugs in the pharmacy and payment for items expected to be received free.
