- Stakeholders Forum Reviews Achievements, Challenges
Alimosho General Hospital, through the Service Charter Unit, held its 8th Stakeholders Forum, themed: ‘Public Health in Crisis: Strategies for achieving healthcare resilience’, on 28th August, 2025, at the hospital’s main car park.
Speaking at the event, the Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Ministry of Health, Dr. Olusegun Ogboye, represented by the Service Improvement Officer from the Service Delivery Unit, Mrs. Joan Oluyemi, urged the hospital stakeholders to imbibe the spirit of resilience even in the face of healthcare challenges, adding that as members of the community their positive contributions towards the growth of the hospital will go a long way in overcoming some crisis within the health system.
Dr. Ogboye stated that a strong system and facility for protecting people is needed to prepare the hospital against future crises. He affirmed that the Government has a role to play, as well as the stakeholders, stressing the need to be resilient despite challenges.
He further advocated powerful partnerships among community leaders, organisations and the hospital towards a resilient public healthcare facility.
The Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Ministry of Environment and Water Resources, Dr. Omobolaji Gaji, represented by Mrs. Oguntola Toyin, while addressing challenges faced by the closely located dumpsite to the hospital, disclosed the government’s plans to recycle and convert wastes for further usage.
Dr. Gaji espoused that wastes could be reused, redesigned and repaired for optimal use, to promote and encourage the circular economy. He described the establishment of a Material Testing Facility, located in Badagry, as one of the measures put in place to reduce and permanently relocate the dumpsite.
The PS, therefore, implored all stakeholders to continually trust in the government, be more patient as proactive actions are already in place for a healthier environment.
Delivering a welcome address, Medical Director/CEO of the Hospital, Dr. Ayodapo Soyinka appreciated the stakeholders’ support and understanding towards the growth and development of the hospital in the past, saying their feedback, in no small measure, helps the hospital in making impactful decisions.
The MD stated that the hospital has made significant improvements since the last stakeholders’ Forum. In his words “We effected some decisions made during the last stakeholders forum, including providing additional Solar Energy to power up critical areas of the hospital, a fully operational new Accident and Emergency Building, functional Intensive Care Unit which is headed by an intensivist, an Oxygen Plant for maximum oxygen generation for the hospital and other health facilities in and out of the state,”
He added that the facility has also launched its diagnosis centre and will have a CT Scan machine in a couple of months, as well as the newly opened Creche for staff with new babies and other mothers in the community, among other achievements of the hospital in the last few months.
The MD, however, informed that despite the numerous achievements by the management, the facility has in recent times faced challenges, such as the strike actions, instability within the health care systems and massive exit of healthcare workers, a situation that has left a great deficit within the health system.
He, therefore, appealed for government interventions and collaboration with stakeholders, as a means to tackle the crisis in the Public health system. Additionally, he affirmed that the hospital, in a bid to reduce bad odour from the dumpsite near the hospital, has collaborated with Lagos Waste Management Authority ( LAWMA) for periodic treatment of the waste, particularly during the rainy season.
The Guest Speaker and Retired Medical Director, Lagos Island Maternity Hospital, Dr. Oreose Imosemi, in his keynote address, highlighted some of the challenges facing the healthcare system to include the massive exit of healthcare workers which has drastically reduced the workforce, strike actions, the high cost of medical consumables and technology, out of pocket expenditures and discordant among Public and Private health facilities as well as the Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) among other factors.
He advocated massive enrollment in the State Health Scheme to curb out-of-pocket expenditures and promote effective and available healthcare for all. He added that medical funds should be channelled for the appropriate usage, and also calls for continual engagement among the public and private hospitals, as well as the TBAs, for an enhanced synergy to provide adequate and proactive healthcare systems for all.
The Director of Service Delivery, ALGH’s Service Charter, Assistant Director of Nursing Service, Yetunde Oyinlola, on behalf of the hospital, thanked all the stakeholders present, especially the inpatients and outpatients of the hospital, for their presence and impact on the success of the stakeholders’ forum.
