Eko Hospital

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Eko Hospital
Establishment of EkoCorp PLC
EKO hospital Victoria Island,Lagos.jpg
Geography
Location Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria
Organisation
Care system NHS
Funding Private
Type General
Services
Emergency department Yes
History
Opened1982 (1982)
Links
Website https://www.ekohospitals.com/
Lists Hospitals in Nigeria

The Eko Hospital is a private hospital located at Ikeja with annex in Ikoyi, Central Lagos, Surulere, Lagos State Nigeria. [1] This hospital was established in 1982 to succeed Mercy Specialist Clinic, a clinic that operated in the late 1970s to provide health care services to the entire people of Lagos State, Nigeria. [2] [3] Eko hospital main objective and goal is to provide a wide range of health services, including secondary services for its local population, regional as well as national health services. [4] Eko hospital, is the first private hospital to be quoted on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange [5]

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Facilities

Eko hospital has an annex at Ikeja consisting of about 130 beds space with the basic medical equipment for conducting series of diagnostic test. [6] [7] The Surulere annex is a 40-bed Secondary health care facility. [8] Other diagnostic equipment includes:

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References

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